Narration in the Flemish Dual Publication System: The Crossover Genre of the Humoristic Adventure

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels 1
4. PART I. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE AND NARRATOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
5. Zooming In and Out: Panels, Frames, Sequences, and the Building of Graphic Storyworlds 27
6. Space, Time, and Causality in Graphic Narratives: An Embodied Approach 49
7. Who’s Telling the Tale? Authors and Narrators in Graphic Narrative 67
8. Subjectivity and Style in Graphic Narratives 101
9. PART II. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE BEYOND THE ‘SINGLE WORK’
10. Graphic Memoir: Neither Fact Nor Fiction 127
11. Superhero Comics and the Authorizing Functions of the Comic Book Paratext 155
12. Intermediality, Transmediality, and Graphic Narrative 191
13. Comics in the Intersecting Histories of the Window, the Frame, and the Panel 219
14. PART III. GENRE AND FORMAT HISTORIES OF GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
15. A History of the Narrative Comic Strip 241
16. Narration in the Flemish Dual Publication System: The Crossover Genre of the Humoristic Adventure 255
17. Un/Taming the Beast, or Graphic Novels (Re)Considered 271
18. Archival, Ephemeral, and Residual: The Functions of Early Comics in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers 301
19. PART IV. GRAPHIC NARRATIVE ACROSS CULTURES
20. Anglo-American Graphic Narrative 325
21. European Graphic Narratives: Toward a Cultural and Mediological History 347
22. Ghostly: ‘Asian Graphic Narratives,’ Nonnonba, and Manga 363
23. Graphic Narrative as World Literature 385
24. Index (Persons) 407
25. Index (Works) 413