What Happens When Nothing Happens : Boredom and Everyday Life in Contemporary Comics Paperback / softback
by Greice Schneider
Part of the Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels series
Paperback / softback
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Boredom and melancholy in the experience of reading.
Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens.
Present-day graphic accounts are inhabited by melancholic characters whining about the lack of meaning in life.
This book examines this intriguing transition and brings a historical, aesthetical and narratological approach to comics in which boredom is not only a topic, but also awakens a deliberate affective response in the very experience of reading.
This volume brings together close readings of work by Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine.
With a foreword by Raphäel Baroni (University of Lausanne).
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Leuven University Press
- Publication Date:06/07/2016
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- ISBN:9789462700734
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Leuven University Press
- Publication Date:06/07/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9789462700734
