Reading Comics Through The Body
Embodiment and Materiality in the Making and Reading of Comics
Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels;
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 12 February 2026
- ISBN 9783032068736
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations XXIV, 252 p. 83 illus. in color. 695
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Long description:
This book is about what happens to comics theory when we privilege the relationship between materiality and the body in the analysis of comics. Focusing on how these factors relate to making, technological reproduction and the experience of reading comics, it aims to establish a new theoretical model for comics studies.
Through a close consideration of how technologies of reproduction translate material and embodied traces into the surface of comics, the book argues that tactile and haptic encounters with these surfaces can organise the narrative structure of comics and affect the experience of reading them. The book aims to establish that comics can be thought of as networked sites of embodied encounter in which embodied responses become a register of meaning.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction.- 2. Practice Overview.- Part I.- 3. Material and the Body.- 4. Time and Touch.- 5. The Performance of Reading.- Part II.- 6. The Role of the Haptic and Indexical in Iconic Solidarity and Braiding.- 7. The Indexical in Visual Metaphor - A Critique of Elisabeth El Refaie's System for Analysing Metaphor.- 8. Reconsidering Metalepsis in Comics - Theorising the Relationship Between Storyworld and the Drawn Trace.- 9. Close Reading- Materiality and Embodied Trace in Superhero, Manga and Children's Comics.- 10. Conclusion.
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