E-raamat: Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods

"In this volume, ably edited by Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith, some of the brightest and best international comics critics have joined forces to apply a variety of theoretical approaches to selected major texts to elucidate their appeal for the modern reader. The result is a user-friendly guide for professors, students, and general readers alike. Criticism has seldom been more fun." M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of Humanities, Randolph-Macon College

"The strength of this overview is in its truly admirable breadththe broad range of objects it analyzes along with the various methodologies it brings to bear on comics. This volume is a valuable introduction to the lexicon of what many are now calling comics studies that usefully seeks to enlarge the emerging field as opposed to fixing it down." Hillary Chute, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago 'In this volume, ably edited by Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith, some of the brightest and best international comics critics have joined forces to apply a variety of theoretical approaches to selected major texts to elucidate their appeal for the modern reader. The result is a user-friendly guide for professors, students, and general readers alike. Criticism has seldom been more fun.' M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of Humanities, Randolph-Macon College

'The strength of this overview is in its truly admirable breadththe broad range of objects it analyzes along with the various methodologies it brings to bear on comics. This volume is a valuable introduction to the lexicon of what many are now calling comics studies that usefully seeks to enlarge the emerging field as opposed to fixing it down.' Hillary Chute, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago

'Despite the increasingly broad academic interest in and published studies of comic books, until now there has not been a single-volume handbook to methods in the field... If there is to be a discipline of 'comics studies,' this is the sort of book necessary for the conversation.' - D. Orcutt, CHOICE magazine

'Editors Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan deserve applause for their meticulous editing of Critical Approaches to Comics.' - Kirsten Mollegaard, University of Hawai'i at Hilo