ID - 631999 TI - The graphic novel : an introduction AU - Baetens, Jan AU - Frey, Hugo PY - 2015 SN - 9781107025233 9781107655768 9781139177849 1316120104 1316121194 1139177842 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Graphic arts KW - Fiction KW - Graphic novels KW - Comic books, strips, etc. KW - Romans graphiques KW - Bandes dessinées KW - History and criticism KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - 741.5 KW - eenentwintigste eeuw KW - graphic novels KW - kunst KW - narratologie KW - kunsttheorie KW - striptheorie KW - strips KW - tekenkunst KW - #KVHA:Letterkunde KW - #KVHA:Literaire genres KW - #KVHA:Graphic novel KW - #KVHA:Strips KW - 741.51 KW - Bandes dessinées KW - 82-931 KW - 82-931 Stripverhaal KW - Stripverhaal KW - beeldverhalen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:631999 AB - This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: what is the graphic novel? How do we read graphic novels as narrative forms? Why is page design and publishing format so significant? What theories are developing to explain the genre? How is this form blurring the categories of high and popular literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the old comics? The authors address these and many other questions raised by the genre. Through their analysis of the works of many well-known graphic novelists - including Bechdel, Clowes, Spiegelman and Ware - Baetens and Frey offer significant insights for future teaching and research on the graphic novel. ER -