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Schneider, Greice. "Comics and Everyday Life: From Ennui to Contemplation." European Comic Art 3. (2010): 37–63. Added by: joachim (9/30/10, 1:36 AM) Last edited by: joachim (11/16/20, 1:20 PM) |
Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.3828/eca.2010.4 BibTeX citation key: Schneider2010 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Media effects, Narratology Creators: Schneider Collection: European Comic Art |
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This paper discusses the recent growing presence of the everyday in comics from different traditions, works where ordinary situations and apparently insignificant events take the place of extraordinary worlds and adventure stories. Drawing predominantly from the French perspective of Everyday Studies (Lefebvre, Blanchot, Perec, De Certeau), the ambiguous dynamics of the everyday will be here studied in relation to the contrasting concepts of boredom and strangeness. This paper addresses not only comics that bring these two attitudes as a theme, but also those which manage to awaken emotional responses in the reader, specifically ennui and contemplation. The aim here is to identify different strategies proper to the language of comics capable of arousing everyday moods in the reading experience, particularly in those cases where the temporal dimension is manipulated, reinforcing a sense of slowness.
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