Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form

by Hannah Miodrag

Overview

A new theoretical framework that critiques many of the assumptions of comics studies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496802606
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	01/21/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Hannah Miodrag, Leicester, United Kingdom, is a postdoctoral fellow of English at the University of Leicester. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Comic Art, Studies in Comics, and PEER English: The Journal of New Critical Thinking.

Editorial Reviews

"Hannah Miodrag's Comics and Language is a powerful corrective to failures in the existing literature of comics studies around the use of language and offers new avenues for engaging with the scholarship of comics. Her close readings of specific works are insightful and succeed at what good criticism should do. After reading this book, I wanted to go pull volumes of George Herriman, Lynda Barry, and Posy Simmonds off the shelf and start rereading with renewed enthusiasm and an expanded attention to the language at work in the comics."

—Derik A. Badman, artist, critic, and web developer

"Miodrag unflinchingly challenges what she considers to be the false assumptions of comics scholarship: comics are a kind of language, comics are a kind of literature, words and images are equivalent in comics. She undercuts these claims with compelling arguments about the significant differences between written language and visual language. But Miodrag is doing more than merely hurling brickbats; Comics and Language provides a new critical framework for understanding comics form."

—Randy Duncan, co-author of The Power of Comics: History, Form, and Culture and co-editor of the Eisner-nominated Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods

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