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001 2014410688
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010 $a 2014410688
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035 $a(OCoLC)891759841
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn891759841
040 $aKKS$beng$cKKS$erda$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aPN6747.S48$bZ76 2014
100 1 $aLeroy, Fabrice,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSfar so far :$bidentity, history, fantasy, and mimesis in Joann Sfar's graphic novels /$cFabrice Leroy.
264 1 $aLeuven, Belgium :$bLeuven University Press,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014.
300 $a303 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
440 0 $aStudies in European comics and graphic novels ;$v2
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"... the first monograph in any language devoted to the graphic novels of Joann Sfar, an artist whose abundant and innovative work has profoundly marked the contemporary French comics scene. This essay examines how, over the past two decades, Sfar has constructed an idiosyncratic universe with its own thematic and stylistic recurrences: a playful drafting style, contrasting with the thoughtful introduction of historical, theological, and philosophical matters; a sophisticated use of literary, filmic, musical, and pictorial references; an exploration of his own Jewish heritage in the context of a multicultural, postcolonial French society; an affinity for magic realism, fairy tales, heroic fantasy, the fantastique, and science fiction, often filtered through irony or parody; and a predilection for romantic musings and an interest in unconventional love stories."--Cover.
600 10 $aSfar, Joann$xCriticism and interpretation.