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100 1 $aTöpffer, Rodolphe,$d1799-1846,$eauthor.
245 10 $aInventing comics :$ba new translation of Rodolphe Töpffer's reflections on graphic storytelling, media rhetorics, and aesthetic practice /$cedited, translated, and introduced by Sergio C. Figueiredo.
264 1 $aAnderson, South Carolina :$bParlor Press,$c[2017]
300 $axxxiii, 175 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aVisual rhetoric
546 $aIntroductions in English; chapters contain parallel text in English and French; translated from the French.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aIn recent years, graphic novels have gained a renewed interest from a host of scholars in a diverse range of fields, including rhetoric and writing, media studies, literary studies, visual communication, graphic arts, and art history. While many of these studies reference Rodolphe Töpffer as the inventor (or, "father") of the genre, his scholarly work addressing the theoretical foundation and significance of graphic novels has remained unavailable to English-speaking audiences. Inventing Comics fills this gap by presenting a translation of two essays by Töpffer that place the invention of graphic novels at the intersection of rhetoric, philosophy, aesthetics, and civic life. In his role as a professor of rhetoric and belle-lettres at the Academy of Geneva, Töpffer not only wrote popular fiction (graphic novels, novels, plays) but also a host of scholarly works addressing the relationship between aesthetics and poetics. Pulling from Töpffer's scholarly corpus, Figueiredo argues that Töpffer's invention of graphic novels was the manifestation of a much broader media theory, one that engaged with the social, cultural, political, and technological shifts accompanying the Industrial Revolution in the early- and mid-nineteenth century. While Figueiredo's primary focus is to situate Töpffer in the histories of rhetoric, media studies, and the emergence of what Gregory L. Ulmer has called the apparatus of electracy, these essays also resonate with affect theory, apparatus theory, art history, graphic novels, literary studies, philosophy, sensory studies, and writing studies.
505 00 $tRodolphe Töpffer, media rhetorics, & electracy --$tEssay on physiognomy (1845) --$tEssay on autography (1842) --$tOf a Genevan painter (1830).
650 0 $aGraphic novels.
650 0 $aComic books, strips, etc.
650 0 $aNarration (Rhetoric)
650 0 $aArt and literature.
650 0 $aPhysiognomy in art.
650 0 $aVisual communication in art.
650 7 $aGraphic novels.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00946656
655 7 $aEssays.$2lcgft
655 7 $aEssays.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919922
700 12 $iContainer of (work):$aTöpffer, Rodolphe,$d1799-1846.$tEssai de physiognomonie.
700 12 $iContainer of (expression):$aTöpffer, Rodolphe,$d1799-1846.$tEssai de physiognomonie.$lEnglish.
700 12 $iContainer of (work):$aTöpffer, Rodolphe,$d1799-1846.$tEssai d'autographie.
700 12 $iContainer of (work):$aTöpffer, Rodolphe,$d1799-1846.$tD'un peintre Genevois.
700 12 $iContainer of (expression):$aTöpffer, Rodolphe,$d1799-1846.$tD'un peintre Genevois.$lEnglish.
700 1 $aFigueiredo, Sergio C.,$eeditor,$etranslator,$ewriter of introduction.
830 0 $aVisual rhetoric.
852 00 $bgnc$hPN6710$i.T6713 2017