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Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9789462700734 BibTeX citation key: Schneider2016a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Alternative Comics, Chabosy. Laurent, France, Narratology, Tomine. Adrian, Trondheim. Lewis, USA, Ware. Chris Creators: Schneider Publisher: Leuven Univ. Press (Leuven) |
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Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens. Present-day graphic accounts are inhabited by melancholic characters whining about the lack of meaning in life. This book examines this intriguing transition and brings a historical, aesthetical and narratological approach to comics in which boredom is not only a topic, but also awakens a deliberate affective response in the very experience of reading. This volume brings together close readings of work by Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine.
Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Part One: The Relationship between Comics and Everyday Life and Boredom 1. A Brief History of Boredom 2. Boredom and the Everyday in Comics 3. Four Approaches Towards the Everyday Part Two: The Ambiguity of Boredom in Terms of an Aesthetic Phenomenon 4.The Poetics of Boredom Part Three: The Narratological Perspective of the Dialectics of Boredom 5. Boredom as a Narratological Concept 6. What Happens When Nothing Happens Part Four: Focus on the Works of Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine 7. The Little Nothings of Lewis Trondheim 8. Adrian Tomine: Lost Gazes, Detached Minds 9. Chris Ware: Resisting Narrative Immersion Conclusion Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |
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Rez.: Laura Schlichting: The Depiction and Interpretation of the Ambiguous Nature of Boredom and Everyday Life in Contemporary Comics. In: KULT_online 49 (2017).
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