Comics and Agency

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-075440-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 305 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Reihe: Comics Studies

This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga, graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial, mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. Agency is at stake when recipients resist hegemonic readings of multimodal texts. In the same manner, “authorship” can be understood as the attribution of agency of and between various medial instances and roles such as writers, artists, colorists, letterers, or editors, as well as with regard to commercial rights holders such as publishing houses or conglomerates and reviewers or fans. From this perspective, aspects of comics production (authorship and institutionalization) can be related to aspects of comics reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization), including their potential for transmedialization and making contributions to the formation of the public sphere.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of comics studies; cultural studies; fan studies; litera

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ossa, Vanessa

Thon, Jan-Noël

Wilde, Lukas R. A.

Thon, Jan-Noe¨l

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Comics & Cartoons (Design)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Graphic Novel & Manga (Design)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Über Autor(innen)

Vanessa Ossa, University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany; Jan-Noël Thon, Osnabrück University, Germany; Lukas R.A. Wilde, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.