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Publisher
Finnish Literature Society / SKS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book examines phenomena from Finnish and Finnish-Swedish literature written in the years between the 1980s and the first decade of the new millennium. Its objective is to study this interesting era of literary history in Finland and to sketch some possible directions for future development by identifying literary turning points which have already occurred.
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Publisher
The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips uncovers the understudied and developing history of these strips, defining and exploring the ramifications of this expression of women’s roles at a time of great change in history and in comic art. This impressive, engaging, and timely study illustrates how...
Author
Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent in exploration of textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of composition in literature as well as music; and traces...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture.The editors have gathered a distinguished group of international scholars working at the interstices of comics studies and game studies to explore two interrelated areas of inquiry: The first part of...
Author
Publisher
The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Eszter Szép’s Comics and the Body is the first book to examine the roles of the body in both drawing and reading comics within a single framework. With an explicit emphasis on the ethical dimensions of bodily vulnerability, Szép takes her place at the forefront of scholars examining comics as embodied experiences, pushing this line of inquiry into bold new territory. Focusing on graphic autobiography and reportage, she argues that the bodily performances...
Author
Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"This critical edition of the working notes for Dombey and Son (1848) is ideal for readers who wish to know more about Dickens's craft and creativity. Drawing on the authors manuscript in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and containing hyperlinked facsimiles Dickens's Working Notes for Dombey and Son offers a new digital transcription with a fresh commentary by Tony Laing. Unique and innovative, this is the only edition to make Dickens' working...
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