Overview

Full Product Details

9781628461749

Table of Contents

Reviews

Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie's study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework. --Thierry Groensteen, author of La bande dessin e: Une litt rature graphique, La construction de la cage, and The System of Comics

Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie s study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework. Thierry Groensteen, author of <i>La bande dessinee: Une litterature graphique, La construction de la cage</i>, and <i>The System of Comics</i></p>

-Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie's study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework.---Thierry Groensteen, author of La bande dessinee: Une litterature graphique, La construction de la cage, and The System of Comics Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie's study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework. --Thierry Groensteen, author of La bande dessinee: Une litterature graphique, La construction de la cage, and The System of Comics Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie s study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework. Thierry Groensteen, author of La bande dessinee: Une litterature graphique, La construction de la cage, and The System of Comics Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie s study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework. Thierry Groensteen, author of La bande dessinee: Une litterature graphique, La construction de la cage, and The System of Comics Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie's study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework. --Thierry Groensteen, author of La bande dessinee: Une litterature graphique, La construction de la cage, and The System of Comics

Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie's study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework.--Thierry Groensteen, author of La bande dessin�e: Une litt�rature graphique, La construction de la cage, and The System of Comics

Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie's study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework. --Thierry Groensteen, author of La bande dessinee: Une litterature graphique, La construction de la cage, and The System of Comics

Based on a large and eclectic corpus, Elisabeth El Refaie's study questions autobiographical comics in the light of narrative, literary, media and cultural theories. She accumulates penetrating clarifications on the socio-cultural models involved and on specific questions such as embodiment or the relationship to the mirror, to authenticity, to self-deprecation and even to abjection. The phenomenon of life writing in pictures is now provided with a complete theoretical framework. --Thierry Groensteen, author of <i>La bande dessinee: Une litterature graphique, La construction de la cage</i>, and <i>The System of Comics</i></p>

Author Information

Elisabeth El Refaie, Cardiff, United Kingdom, is a senior lecturer at Cardiff University. Her work has been published in Studies in Comics, Visual Studies, and HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, among other periodicals.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available