What Happens When Nothing Happens: What Happens When Nothing Happens, cartea 5
Autor Greice Schneideren Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iul 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789462700734
ISBN-10: 9462700737
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 174 x 235 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Leuven University Press
Colecția What Happens When Nothing Happens
Seria What Happens When Nothing Happens
ISBN-10: 9462700737
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 174 x 235 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Leuven University Press
Colecția What Happens When Nothing Happens
Seria What Happens When Nothing Happens
Notă biografică
Greice Schneider is associate professor of communication at the Universidade Federal de Sergipe (Brazil).
Cuprins
ForewordAcknowledgements
Introduction What Is Interesting about Boredom? Defining a Slippery Corpus Two Approaches and Three Authors
Part One: The Relationship between Comics and Everyday Life and Boredom
Chapter One. A Brief History of Boredom Boredom and Modernity: New Words for a New Feeling Avoiding or Enduring Boredom? Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Boredom Benjamin and the Atrophy of Experience
Chapter Two. Boredom and the Everyday in Comics Keeping Boredom Away Gag a Day: Repetition and Variation in Comic Strips Escaping Tediousness: Super-hero Comic Books and BDs From Underground Comix to Alternative Comics In Praise of the Loser Gender and Boredom in Alternative Comics The Joy and the Burden of the Comics Artist
Chapter Three. Four Approaches Towards the Everyday Grasping the Everyday Observational Humour Derisive Humour Ennui Contemplation
Part Two: The Ambiguity of Boredom in Terms of an Aesthetic Phenomenon
Chapter Four.The Poetics of Boredom A Dynamics of Boredom and Interest The Paradox of Boredom A Plea for Attention Slowness and Speed Repetition and Variation Minimalism and Excess On Gestures and Facial Expressions
Part Three: The Narratological Perspective of the Dialectics of Boredom
Chapter Five. Boredom as a Narratological Concept Uneventful Eventfulness And So What? Tellability and the 'Point' of the Story On Boredom and Narrative Tension
Chapter Six. What Happens When Nothing Happens Linearity and Tabularity in Narrative Tension Defying the Cliffhanger Open-Ended Everyday and Diary Comics When Suspense Is Suspended Expectation Becomes the Event Eventfulness: Too Much or Too Little?
Part Four: Focus on the Works of Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine
Chapter Seven. The Little Nothings of Lewis Trondheim Minimalism, Constraints and Repetition Rabbits and Dungeons in a Neo-Baroque Farce The Drama of Having Nothing to Tell
Chapter Eight. Adrian Tomine: Lost Gazes, Detached Minds From Mini-Comics to Graphic Novels and Back to Floppies In Praise of Apathy in the Name of Honesty Graphic Transparency and Linear Reading Reticent Endings and Suspended Gaze
Chapter Nine. Chris Ware: Resisting Narrative Immersion Against Immersion Temporal Immersion: In Defence of Slow Reading Emotional Immersion: Clear Line and Graphic Empathy Spatial Immersion: Playing with Page Layout (Un)eventfulness in Building Stories Against Distraction
Conclusion Notes Works Cited Bibliography
Introduction What Is Interesting about Boredom? Defining a Slippery Corpus Two Approaches and Three Authors
Part One: The Relationship between Comics and Everyday Life and Boredom
Chapter One. A Brief History of Boredom Boredom and Modernity: New Words for a New Feeling Avoiding or Enduring Boredom? Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Boredom Benjamin and the Atrophy of Experience
Chapter Two. Boredom and the Everyday in Comics Keeping Boredom Away Gag a Day: Repetition and Variation in Comic Strips Escaping Tediousness: Super-hero Comic Books and BDs From Underground Comix to Alternative Comics In Praise of the Loser Gender and Boredom in Alternative Comics The Joy and the Burden of the Comics Artist
Chapter Three. Four Approaches Towards the Everyday Grasping the Everyday Observational Humour Derisive Humour Ennui Contemplation
Part Two: The Ambiguity of Boredom in Terms of an Aesthetic Phenomenon
Chapter Four.The Poetics of Boredom A Dynamics of Boredom and Interest The Paradox of Boredom A Plea for Attention Slowness and Speed Repetition and Variation Minimalism and Excess On Gestures and Facial Expressions
Part Three: The Narratological Perspective of the Dialectics of Boredom
Chapter Five. Boredom as a Narratological Concept Uneventful Eventfulness And So What? Tellability and the 'Point' of the Story On Boredom and Narrative Tension
Chapter Six. What Happens When Nothing Happens Linearity and Tabularity in Narrative Tension Defying the Cliffhanger Open-Ended Everyday and Diary Comics When Suspense Is Suspended Expectation Becomes the Event Eventfulness: Too Much or Too Little?
Part Four: Focus on the Works of Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine
Chapter Seven. The Little Nothings of Lewis Trondheim Minimalism, Constraints and Repetition Rabbits and Dungeons in a Neo-Baroque Farce The Drama of Having Nothing to Tell
Chapter Eight. Adrian Tomine: Lost Gazes, Detached Minds From Mini-Comics to Graphic Novels and Back to Floppies In Praise of Apathy in the Name of Honesty Graphic Transparency and Linear Reading Reticent Endings and Suspended Gaze
Chapter Nine. Chris Ware: Resisting Narrative Immersion Against Immersion Temporal Immersion: In Defence of Slow Reading Emotional Immersion: Clear Line and Graphic Empathy Spatial Immersion: Playing with Page Layout (Un)eventfulness in Building Stories Against Distraction
Conclusion Notes Works Cited Bibliography
Descriere
Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens. This volume brings together close readings of work by Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware, and Adrian Tomine.