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Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies : History, Pedagogy, Theory.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498526234
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics StudiesDDC classification:
  • 741.5943
LOC classification:
  • PN6755
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- I: CONTEXTS AND HISTORIES -- Chapter One: German Comics -- Chapter Two: Before They Were "Art" -- II: GERMAN CULTURAL EDUCATION -- Chapter Three: "Nothing but Exclamation Points?" -- Chapter Four: The Book of Revelation as Graphic Novel -- III: GRAPHIC NOVELS: HANDS-ON -- Chapter Five: Using Graphic Novels for Content Learning in the German-Studies Classroom -- Chapter Six: "Show and Tell" -- IV: GENERATIONS OF GERMAN HISTORY -- Chapter Seven: Tension Acrobatics in Comic Art -- Chapter Eight: Perspectivity in Graphic Novels about War -- V: AUSTRIAN VOICES -- Chapter Nine: Cultural Legitimacy and Nicolas Mahler's Autobiographical Comics -- Chapter Ten: The Perfection of Imperfection -- Chapter Eleven: Patterns of Memory and Self-Confrontation in Gerald Hartwig's Chamäleon -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies: History, Pedagogy, Theory is the first English-language anthology to focus on graphic novels and comics from the German-speaking world. Its contributors take innovative historical, pedagogical, and theoretical approaches to reading contemporary German-language comics and, in doing so, demand that the German-language comics tradition, separate from American or Franco-Belgian traditions, be taken seriously at home and abroad.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- I: CONTEXTS AND HISTORIES -- Chapter One: German Comics -- Chapter Two: Before They Were "Art" -- II: GERMAN CULTURAL EDUCATION -- Chapter Three: "Nothing but Exclamation Points?" -- Chapter Four: The Book of Revelation as Graphic Novel -- III: GRAPHIC NOVELS: HANDS-ON -- Chapter Five: Using Graphic Novels for Content Learning in the German-Studies Classroom -- Chapter Six: "Show and Tell" -- IV: GENERATIONS OF GERMAN HISTORY -- Chapter Seven: Tension Acrobatics in Comic Art -- Chapter Eight: Perspectivity in Graphic Novels about War -- V: AUSTRIAN VOICES -- Chapter Nine: Cultural Legitimacy and Nicolas Mahler's Autobiographical Comics -- Chapter Ten: The Perfection of Imperfection -- Chapter Eleven: Patterns of Memory and Self-Confrontation in Gerald Hartwig's Chamäleon -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies: History, Pedagogy, Theory is the first English-language anthology to focus on graphic novels and comics from the German-speaking world. Its contributors take innovative historical, pedagogical, and theoretical approaches to reading contemporary German-language comics and, in doing so, demand that the German-language comics tradition, separate from American or Franco-Belgian traditions, be taken seriously at home and abroad.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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