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Comics and Language This page intentionally left blank COMICS and LANGUAGE Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form Hannah Miodrag University Press of Mississippi / Jackson www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2013 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2013 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Miodrag, Hannah. Comics and language : reimagining critical discourse on the form / Hannah Miodrag. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-61703-804-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-1-61703-805-1 (ebook) 1. Comic books, strips, etc.—Criticism, Textual. 2. Graphic novels—History and criti- cism. 3. Comic books, strips, etc.—Authorship. 4. Discourse analysis, Literary. I. Title. PN6714.M56 2013 741.5’9—dc23 2013003471 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available For David This page intentionally left blank Contents 3 Introduction PART ONE Language in Comics 17 CHAPTER ONE Arbitrary Minimal Units in Krazy Kat 41 CHAPTER TWO Langue, Parole, and Constraint in the Cartoons of Lynda Barry 59 CHAPTER THREE Language in Context: The Spatiality of Text in Comics PART TWO Comics as Language 83 CHAPTER FOUR TheHybrid Question: Interaction or Fusion? 108 CHAPTER FIVE Comics as Network 142 CHAPTERSIX Sequentiality as Realism PART THREE Images as Language 169 CHAPTERSEVEN Asterios Polyp and the Structure of Visual Images 197 CHAPTER EIGHT Style,Expressivity, and Impressionistic Evaluation 221 CHAPTER NINE Composition: Continuity, Demarcation, and Nesting 246 Conclusion 253 Notes 257 Bibliography 267 Index This page intentionally left blank Comics and Language
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