Existentialist Comics by Elizabeth Benjamin
This book explores the historical and artistic value of three bande dessinee (BD), French-language comics, that depict the lives of Existentialist thinkers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus. The work is the first to analyse biographical BD through the lens of Existentialism, offering a new theory of reading biographical comics.-
Hear the Tap, Feel the Scratch
-
Power and Subjectivity in the Late Work of Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini
-
'Keeping the Sources Pure'
-
Formless
-
Surrealism
-
Depicting Desire
-
European Intertexts
-
She's Leaving Home
-
Laughter and Power
-
Borges and Dante
-
Making Sense
-
After Intimacy
-
Understanding Our Selves
-
Re-reading Pio Baroja and English Literature
-
Entre mélancolie et connaissance; Réception créatrice de Proust en Italie
-
Gesture in French Post-New Wave Cinema
-
Viva Pinter
-
Nations, Traditions and Cross-Cultural Identities
-
Readers, Writers, Salonnieres
-
Songbirds on the Literary Stage
-
Leonardo Sciascia’s French Authors
-
The Pleasure in/of the Text
-
Nomadic Literature
-
Lingua Barbara or the Mystery of the Other
-
Narrating the Self in Early Modern Europe L'Ecriture De Soi Dans L'Europe Moderne
-
The Epistolary Muse
-
The Fausts of Gerard de Nerval
-
Voices of Dissent
-
Identity and Cultural Translation: Writing across the Borders of Englishness
-
Symphonie der Worte
-
Translators, Interpreters, Mediators
-
Writing on the Move
-
The Tragic Discourse L'Experience Du Tragique
«This book makes a valuable contribution to the field of BD studies, and more specifically to theories of biographical BDsThe author proves that the three BD biographies of Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus, far from offering «dumbed down» introductions to prominent intellectuals, have succeeded in creating an entirely new biographical form. It is immaculately researched, with well-selected quotations from Existentialists and their critics meticulously melded together with equally pertinent references to comic strip scholars.» (Dr Matthew Screech, Senior Lecturer in French, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Elizabeth Benjamin is Lecturer in French and Associate of the Centre for Arts, Memory and Culture, at Coventry University, UK. She previously worked at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the Université de Lorraine, France. Her research is in French and Francophone memory studies, with particular interest in the ways in which memoryscapes are constructed and mediated through cultural artefacts such as monuments and literature, as well as education. Her work on bande dessinée focuses on the ways in which lives are transposed and interpreted, and how legacies are influenced, by artistic and philosophical interactions. Her other interests include Francophone postcolonial theory, French politics and neuroscience.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781800792739 |
| ISBN 10 | 1800792735 |
| Title | Existentialist Comics |
| Author | Elizabeth Benjamin |
| Series | European Connections |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peter Lang International Academic Publishers |
| Year published | 2021-10-27 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |