Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics

Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9783110693683
ISBN-13 : 3110693682
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics by : Lukas Etter

Download or read book Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics written by Lukas Etter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics addresses the benefits and limits of analyses of style in alternative comics. It offers three close readings of works serially published between 1980 and 2018 – Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For, and Jason Lutes’ Berlin – and discusses how artistic style may influence the ways in which readers construct authorship.


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