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 expe...

This innovative introduction to literary studies takes 'the life of texts' as its overarching frame. It provides a conceptual and methodological toolbox for analysing novels, poems, and all sorts of other texts as they circulate in oral, print, and digital form. It shows how texts inspire each other, and how stories migrate across media. It explains why literature has been interpreted in different ways across time. Finally, it asks why some texts fascinate people so much that they are reprodu...

"Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole." Thus does Maurice Merleau-Ponty describe speech in this collection of his important writings on the philosophy of expression, composed during the last decade of his life.

Die Einführung gibt einen Überblick über die Literaturdidaktik aus der Perspektive des Faches Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. Sie kann für die universitäre und außeruniversitäre Aus- und Fortbildung sowie zum Selbststudium verwendet werden. Ziel ist es, unterschiedliche Ansätze für die Arbeit mit literarischen Texten auf den Sprachniveaus A1-C2 vorzustellen. Dabei stehen theoretische Grundlagen wie praktische Unterrichtsvorschläge gleichermaßen im Fokus.

Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het makkelijk om een grens te trekken tussen jeugdliteratuur en literatuur voor volwassenen. Maar in welke categorie valt de adolescentenroman? Dit genre speelt een belangrijke rol in het zogenaamde grensverkeerdebat, de discussie over de vervagende grenzen tussen jeugdliteratuur en ‘echte’ literatuur.

Pilote's unique position in a new and fast developing youth press market.

The French comic magazine Pilote hebdomadaire arrived in a weakening comics market in 1959 largely dominated by syndicated translations of American comics and comics inspired by a Catholic ethos. It tailored its content and tone to an older adolescent reader far removed from that of France's infant comic. Pilote's profile set it on a turbulent course subject to the vicissitudes and fickleness of fashion which situated i...

Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal’s borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned wha...

Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comic studies, children’s comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional historical, narratological and aesthetic approaches to studying girlhood in comics with practice-...