Reading Autobiographical Comics : a Framework for Educational Settings.
This study updates reader-response criticism as the foundation of aesthetic reading in the classroom by bringing it in line with cognitive theories in literary studies and linguistics. Such a framework facilitates a consistent theoretical approach to autobiographical comics.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Frankfurt a.M. :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,
2020.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Anglo-Amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Copyright information
- Copyright information
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Reader-Response Criticism
- 1.1 Reading as a Journey
- 1.2 Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory
- 1.3 Frames
- 1.4 Iser's Model of Meaning-Making
- 1.5 The Overdetermination of Literary Texts
- 2 Transaction in Educational Settings
- 2.1 The Ease of Reading
- 2.2 The Teacher of Literature as a Facilitator
- 2.3 Reading in Stages
- Stage 1: Framing
- Stage 2: Reading
- Stage 3: Think-Tank
- Stage 4: Lockstep
- Stage 5: Rereading
- Stage 6: Conclusions
- Stage 7: Closure
- 2.4 Learner Texts &
- Activities
- 3 Cognitive (Literary) Studies
- 3.1 The Return of the Reader
- 3.2 Mental Models
- 3.3 Emotions &
- Empathy
- 3.3.1 The Feeling of What Happens
- 3.3.2 Types of Reading-Related Feelings
- 3.3.3 Transportation
- 3.3.4 Empathy
- 3.4 Embodied Cognition &
- Enactivism
- 3.5 Conceptual Metaphors &
- Blending
- 3.5.1 Basic Principles
- 3.5.2 Metaphors
- 3.5.3 Metonymies
- 3.5.4 Blending
- 3.6 Blending &
- Literary Studies
- 4 Cognitive Approaches to Comics
- 4.1 Synopsis
- 4.2 Definitions
- 4.3 Cartooning
- 4.4 An Art of Tensions
- 4.4.1 Words vs. Images
- 4.4.2 Image vs. Series/Sequence
- 4.4.3 Sequence vs. Page
- 4.4.4 Experience vs. Object
- 4.5 A Cognitive Reading of Craig Thompson's Blankets (Chapter I)
- 5 Autobiographical Comics
- 5.1 The Conceptual Ambiguity of Autobiography
- 5.1.1 A Struggle with Definitions
- 5.1.2 A Brief History of Autographics
- 5.1.3 Autographical Challenges to Autobiographical Genre Theory
- 5.2 Life Writing &
- Blending
- 5.2.1 The Autobiographical Act as Blending
- 5.2.2 Developing Autobiographical Reasoning
- 5.2.3 Autobiographical Memory
- 5.2.4 Photographic Evidence
- 5.3 Authenticity &
- Emotional Truth.
- 5.4 Autobiographical Selves
- 5.5 Embodiment &
- Enaction
- 5.6 Types of Autobiographical Comics
- Conclusion
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography.