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Baetens, Jan. "Reading Comics in Time." New Readings 18. (2022): 1–13. Added by: joachim (02/01/2026, 14:11) Last edited by: joachim (02/01/2026, 14:13) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.18573/newreadings.119 BibTeX citation key: Baetens2022a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Reception Creators: Baetens Collection: New Readings |
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Comics exist in time, not only as historical objects, but also through their reading, and it is the combination of these two aspects that this article addresses. I will start by analyzing a temporal paradox: reading comics seems to be timeless (fast, instantaneous, superficial: hardly “reading” in the noble sense of the word), yet at the same time it never stops (neither at an individual nor at a collective level). This paradox is something that can be framed in “cultural” terms, having to do with the fundamental problem (both a threat and an opportunity) of cultural memory and the possible conflict between transgenerational reading, transmission techniques, and shifting aesthetic categories.
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