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Graphic embodiments
perspectives on health and embodiment in graphic narratives
Comics and other graphic narratives powerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express in language. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore the unique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well as the relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works from illustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions, we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everyday experiences....
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 26 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
E-book
Mark McKinney Postcolonialism and migration in French comics
Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954-62), antiracist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the end of the formal dismantling of French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic-minority and immigrant heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé (Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal (Algeria...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 13 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021
E-book
Bill Bryson The Life and Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
travels through my childhood
Non-fictie
Engels | 379 pagina's | Black Swan, London | 2021
Gedrukt boek
Jukka Mikkonen Philosophy, literature and understanding
on reading and cognition
"Challenging existing methodological conceptions of the analytic approach to aesthetics, Jukka Mikkonen brings together philosophy, literary studies and cognitive psychology to offer a new theory on the cognitive value of reading fiction. Philosophy, Literature and Understanding defends the epistemic significance of narratives, arguing that it should be explained in terms of understanding rather than knowledge. Mikkonen formulates understanding as a cognitive process, which he connects to narrative...
Non-fictie
Engels | 179 pagina's | Bloomsbury Academic, London | 2022
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