WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NOTHING HAPP

01. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-94-6270-073-4
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 592 g

Reihe: Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels

Boredom and melancholy in the experience of reading. Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens. Present-day graphic accounts are inhabited by melancholic characters whining about the lack of meaning in life. This book examines this intriguing transition and brings a historical, aesthetical and narratological approach to comics in which boredom is not only a topic, but also awakens a deliberate affective response in the very experience of reading. This volume brings together close readings of work by Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine. With a foreword by Raphäel Baroni (University of Lausanne).

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schneider, Greice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ForewordAcknowledgements
IntroductionWhat Is Interesting about Boredom? Defining a Slippery Corpus Two Approaches and Three Authors
Part One: The Relationship between Comics and Everyday Life and Boredom
Chapter One. A Brief History of BoredomBoredom and Modernity: New Words for a New FeelingAvoiding or Enduring Boredom?Heidegger and the Phenomenology of BoredomBenjamin and the Atrophy of Experience
Chapter Two. Boredom and the Everyday in Comics Keeping Boredom Away Gag a Day: Repetition and Variation in Comic Strips Escaping Tediousness: Super-hero Comic Books and BDs From Underground Comix to Alternative Comics In Praise of the Loser Gender and Boredom in Alternative Comics The Joy and the Burden of the Comics Artist
Chapter Three. Four Approaches Towards the EverydayGrasping the Everyday Observational Humour Derisive Humour Ennui Contemplation
Part Two: The Ambiguity of Boredom in Terms of an Aesthetic Phenomenon
Chapter Four.The Poetics of BoredomA Dynamics of Boredom and Interest The Paradox of Boredom A Plea for Attention Slowness and Speed Repetition and Variation Minimalism and Excess On Gestures and Facial Expressions
Part Three: The Narratological Perspective of the Dialectics of Boredom
Chapter Five. Boredom as a Narratological Concept Uneventful Eventfulness And So What? Tellability and the 'Point' of the Story On Boredom and Narrative Tension
Chapter Six. What Happens When Nothing HappensLinearity and Tabularity in Narrative TensionDefying the Cliffhanger Open-Ended Everyday and Diary Comics When Suspense Is Suspended Expectation Becomes the Event Eventfulness: Too Much or Too Little?
Part Four: Focus on the Works of Lewis Trondheim, Chris Ware and Adrian Tomine
Chapter Seven. The Little Nothings of Lewis Trondheim Minimalism, Constraints and Repetition Rabbits and Dungeons in a Neo-Baroque Farce The Drama of Having Nothing to Tell
Chapter Eight. Adrian Tomine: Lost Gazes, Detached MindsFrom Mini-Comics to Graphic Novels and Back to Floppies In Praise of Apathy in the Name of Honesty Graphic Transparency and Linear Reading Reticent Endings and Suspended Gaze
Chapter Nine. Chris Ware: Resisting Narrative Immersion Against Immersion Temporal Immersion: In Defence of Slow Reading Emotional Immersion: Clear Line and Graphic Empathy Spatial Immersion: Playing with Page Layout (Un)eventfulness in Building Stories Against Distraction
ConclusionNotes Works Cited Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Schneider, Greice
Greice Schneider is associate professor of communication at the Universidade Federal de Sergipe (Brazil).