Author: Agnes Marszalek Publisher: ISBN: 9781350054615 Category : Comic books, strips, etc Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
"This book builds on cognitive stylistics, humour studies and psychological approaches to literature and film to explore the emotional aspects of humorous narrative comprehension. It investigates how the linguistic features of comic novels and short stories (by, for example, Douglas Adams, Joseph Heller and Nick Hornby) can shape readers' experience of comedy, considering the ways in which moods, characters and the plot is used to trigger blends of positive and negative emotion. The book offers an approach to such features of comedy as dark humour, cringe humour and comic suspense, emphasising the relationship between humorous language and mental states which are typically considered serious. Agnes Marszalek's focus on the non-humorous side of experiencing comedy offers a key contribution to the study of humorous narratives. By investigating humour as part of a narrative world, this book moves towards addressing the complexity of the experience of humour in narrative texts, providing implications not only for the linguistics of humour, but also for those approaches to discourse comprehension which explore the affective side of engaging with texts."--
Author: Agnes Marszalek Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350054593 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
This book builds on cognitive stylistics, humour studies and psychological approaches to literature and film to explore the emotional aspects of humorous narrative comprehension. It investigates how the linguistic features of comic novels and short stories (by, for example, Douglas Adams, Joseph Heller and Nick Hornby) can shape readers' experience of comedy, considering the ways in which moods, characters and the plot is used to trigger blends of positive and negative emotion. The book offers an approach to such features of comedy as dark humour, cringe humour and comic suspense, emphasising the relationship between humorous language and mental states which are typically considered serious. Agnes Marszalek's focus on the non-humorous side of experiencing comedy offers a key contribution to the study of humorous narratives. By investigating humour as part of a narrative world, this book moves towards addressing the complexity of the experience of humour in narrative texts, providing implications not only for the linguistics of humour, but also for those approaches to discourse comprehension which explore the affective side of engaging with texts.
Author: Andrew Tsyaston Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing ISBN: 1449488412 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
"You know how, since the dawn of humanity, great philosophers and poets have dedicated their entire lives to exploring concepts like love, life itself, logic, and sorrow? Well, those great philosophers and poets are dead now, so I win." — Shen Emotions Explained With Buff Dudes is your fully illustrated guide to the hyper-conflicted, tragicomic feelings of our age. Featuring the resilient, shaggy-haired Shen, this debut collection of Owlturd Comix is a tale of triumph and survival — of getting your ass kicked by sleep deprivation and student loans, but never losing hope. Most of all, it's an amusing, instructive journey through a vast array of emotions, including those best explained with dudes who are buff.
Author: Thanhha Lai Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press ISBN: 0702251178 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
Author: Charles Forsman Publisher: Fantagraphics Books ISBN: 1683960629 Category : Comic books, strips, etc Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Sydney seems like a normal 15-year-old freshman. She hangs out underneath the bleachers, listens to music in her friend’s car, and gets into arguments with her annoying little brother ― but she also has a few secrets she’s only shared in her diary. Like how she’s in love with her best friend Dina, the bizarreness of her father's death, and those painful telekinetic powers that keep popping up at the most inopportune times. In this collection of the self-published minicomic series, Forsman expertly channels the teenage ethos in a style that evokes classic comic strips while telling a powerful story about the intense, and sometimes violent, tug of war between trauma and control.
Author: Brian K. Vaughan Publisher: Dark Horse Comics ISBN: 1630089206 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 179
Book Description
Inspired by Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this is Vaughan’s love letter to his chosen medium, a story about what it takes to start out with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio, and end up with a comic so hot a major corporation wants to steal it from you! Brilliantly interweaving the lives of the creators with the world of their creation, artists Steve Rolston and Philip Bond bring the comic-booking trio Maxwell Roth, Case Weaver, and Denny Jones to life, while the inimitable Jason Shawn Alexander and Eduardo Barreto illustrate the thrilling trials and exciting extrications of the new -- and old -- Escapist!
Author: Faith Erin Hicks Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1626721564 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive.
Author: Michael Cho Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 030791173X Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
The brilliant debut graphic novel from the author of Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes about a young woman’s search for happiness and self-fulfillment in the big city. • “Perfectly convey[s] the loneliness of urban life.” —Entertainment Weekly Corrina Park used to have big plans. Studying English literature in college, she imagined writing a successful novel and leading the idealized life of an author. But she’s been working at the same advertising agency for the past five years and the only thing she’s written is ... copy. Corrina knows there must be more to life, but and she faces the same question as does everyone in her generation: how to find it? (With two-color illustrations throughout.)
Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 076364059X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 317
Book Description
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
Author: Agnes Marszalek
Author: Agnes Marszalek
Author: Andrew Tsyaston
Author: Thanhha Lai
Author: Charles Forsman
Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Author: Faith Erin Hicks
Author: Tong-hwa Kim
Author: Michael Cho
Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith