Comics Beyond Text and Image: On the Substance of Visual Narration (1) (Routledge Advances in Comics Studies)

By: Benjamin Fraser

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Synopsis: Comics Beyond Text and Image conceptualizes comics as “bodies,” exploring the substance and the many movements and expressions of comics first and foremost in terms of corporeality.The book centers on the metaphor of the comics body as a way of opening up our understandings of what comics do. It begins from the position that narrative in comics is corporeal, expressed in and through the visual bodies into which the page can be divided analytically, and from the interaction of the human body with the comics body. Drawing on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, the author argues for the primary role of visual narration over textual narration, develops a theory of the comics text as a cohesive and variegated cartography, and shows how thought is expressed in the extensive space of the comics page. This theory is then applied in snapshots of individual comics works that each in their own way continue the philosophical discussions of embodiment.This book moves beyond traditional modes of narration or narrative and will appeal to students and scholars of comics studies, as well as to those thinking about visual narrative more broadly, and to scholars of Spinoza and Deleuze.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 220 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040406588
Related ISBNs:: 9781032982663, 9781003597810, 9781040406540
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/08/25
Copyrighted By:: Benjamin Fraser, The right of Benjamin Fraser to be identified as author
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Reference, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.