What if fairy-tale characters lived in New York City? What if a superhero knew he was a fictional character? What if you could dispense your own justice with one hundred untraceable bullets? These ...are the questions asked and answered in the course of the challenging storytelling inFables,Tom Strong, and100 Bullets, the three twenty-first-century comics series that Karin Kukkonen considers in depth in her exploration of how and why the storytelling in comics is more than merely entertaining.
Applying a cognitive approach to reading comics in all their narrative richness and intricacy,Contemporary Comics Storytellingopens an intriguing perspective on how these works engage the legacy of postmodernism-its subversion, self-reflexivity, and moral contingency. Its three case studies trace how contemporary comics tie into deep traditions of visual and verbal storytelling, how they reevaluate their own status as fiction, and how the fictional minds of their characters generate complex ethical thought experiments. At a time when the medium is taken more and more seriously as intricate and compelling literary art, this book lays the groundwork for an analysis of the ways in which comics challenge and engage readers' minds. It brings together comics studies with narratology and literary criticism and, in so doing, provides a new set of tools for evaluating the graphic novel as an emergent literary form.
Akli Tadjer, the Franco-Algerian writer, whose pen seems to sway between the thumb and the index, escapes all classifications. His literary genius, which moves nimbly and elegantly from one novel to ...another, can only be perceived through the traces left by his soles of wind. In addition to his status as a novelist, Akli Tadjer is also, as evidenced by his various writings, a painter, filmmaker and choreographer. His pen employed, in La Reine du tango (2016), to describe precisely and carefully how Argentine tango is practiced, finally convinces us to give it the mark mentioned above. Defending this hypothesis is therefore what we wish to examine in this paper.
Los cuentos que Agustina Bessa-Luís y Mário Cláudio dedican a una serie de personajes especialmente carismáticos de la monarquía portuguesa medieval plantean una reescritura abiertamente subjetiva de ...sus biografías. En este artículo, se analizan cinco cuentos -"Afonso Henriques e D. Teresa", "Dom Pedro I e Inês de Castro", "Leonor Teles e João Fernandes Andeiro", "Leonor Telles" y "D. João e a família inglesa"-, que permiten indagar sobre la representación de la Edad Media y sobre las estrategias narrativas que contribuyen a conformarla en la ficción contemporánea.
Le présent article propose de suivre deux itinéraires indienocéaniques a partir de deux récits créoles, un Mauricien et un Réunionnais (Un soleil en exil de Jean-François Samlong et Made in Mauritius ...d'Amal Sewtohul). L'étude porte sur deux récits plaçant au centre de la narration les récits rétrospectifs des personnages. Elle analyse la maniere dont la mise en texte et en mots du monde est conçue comme un lieu qu'investissent les personnages. La dimension charnelle de ces narrations est ensuite envisagée afin de penser la façon dont les lieux se déplacent a travers les corps des personnages pratiquant et narrant le monde.
LIKE A STALKER TO THE ZONE McMahon, Melanie
Angelaki : journal of theoretical humanities,
12/2020, Letnik:
25, Številka:
6
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker is often understood as both a cinematic masterpiece and an impenetrable mystery. The source text, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s novel, Roadside Picnic, provides clues ...to interpretation as well as insights into the evolution of motifs from book to screenplay. By subjecting the texts to a critical reading inspired by Alain Badiou’s philosophy of the event – itself considered enigmatic – this article elucidates novel, film, and philosophy, connecting such shared themes as desire, fidelity, militancy, and truth.
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine ...graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Héctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial El Eternauta. After Oesterheld was “disappeared" under the military dictatorship, El Eternauta became one of the most important cultural texts of turbulent mid-twentieth-century Argentina. Today its story, set in motion by an extraterrestrial invasion of Buenos Aires, is read as a parable foretelling the “invasion" of Argentine society by a murderous tyranny. Because of El Eternauta, graphic narrative became a major platform for the country’s cultural redemocratization. In contrast, Brazil, which returned to democracy in 1985 after decades of dictatorship, produced considerably less analysis of the period of repression in its graphic narratives. In Brazil, serious graphic narratives such as Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá’s Daytripper, which explores issues of modernity, globalization, and cross-cultural identity, developed only in recent decades, reflecting Brazilian society’s current and ongoing challenges. Besides discussing El Eternauta and Daytripper, David William Foster utilizes case studies of influential works—such as Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain’s Perramus series, Angélica Freitas and Odyr Bernardi’s Guadalupe, and others—to compare the role of graphic narratives in the cultures of both countries, highlighting the importance of Argentina and Brazil as anchors of the production of world-class graphic narrative.
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