From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels

Content: Introduction: from comic strips to graphic novels --
Part I. Graphic narrative and narratological concepts. Zooming in and out: panels, frames, sequences, and the building of graphic storyworlds 
 Space, time, and causality in graphic narratives: an embodied approach 
 Who\'s telling the tale? Authors and narrators in graphic narrative 
 Subjectivity and style in graphic narratives --
Part II. Graphic narrative beyond the \'single work\'. Graphic memoir: neither fact nor fiction 
 Superhero comics and the authorizing functions of the comic book paratext 
 Intermediality, transmediality, and graphic narrative 
 Comics in the intersecting histories of the window, the frame, and the panel --
Part III. Genre and format histories of graphic narrative. A history of the narrative comic strip 
 Narration in the Flemish dual publication system: the crossover genre of the humoristic adventure 
 Un/taming the beast, or graphic novels (re)considered 
 Archival, ephemeral, and residual: the functions of early comics in Art Spiegelman\'s In the shadow of no towers --
Part IV. Graphic narrative across cultures. Anglo-American graphic narrative 
 European graphic narratives: toward a cultural and mediological history 
 Ghostly: \'Asian graphic narratives, \' nonnonba, and manga 
 Graphic narrative as world literature --
Index (Persons) --
Index (Works).