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Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures
Maaheen Ahmed
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Description for Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures
Hardcover. How comics generate significance and weave images and words into a narrative art Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AKLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich form of art. Maaheen Ahmed examines this trend by taking up philosopher Umberto Eco's notion of the open work of art, whereby the reader - or listener or viewer, as the case may be - is offered several possibilities of interpretation in a cohesive narrative and aesthetic structure. Ahmed delineates the visual, literary, and other medium-specific features used by comics to form open rather than closed works, methods by which comics ... Read more
Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich form of art. Maaheen Ahmed examines this trend by taking up philosopher Umberto Eco's notion of the open work of art, whereby the reader - or listener or viewer, as the case may be - is offered several possibilities of interpretation in a cohesive narrative and aesthetic structure. Ahmed delineates the visual, literary, and other medium-specific features used by comics to form open rather than closed works, methods by which comics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781496805935
SKU
V9781496805935
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Ref
99-50
About Maaheen Ahmed
Maaheen Ahmed, Brussels, Belgium, is currently funded by the FWO (Research Foundation-Flanders) and is a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University. In addition to contributing to several edited collections, Ahmed has published articles in, among others, SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture, Les Cahiers du GRIT, European Journal of American Studies, and International Journal of Comic Art.
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