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Forthcoming titles

n Ann Miller and Bart Beaty (eds.), The French Comics Theory Reader n Fabrice Leroy, Sfar So Far: Identity, History, Fantasy and Mimesis in Joann Sfar’s Graphic Novels n Grace Schneider, What Happens When Nothing Happens. Boredom and Everyday Life in Contemporary Graphic Narratives n Mel Gibson, Remembered Reading. Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood n Simon Grennan & Laurence Grove, Transforming Anthony Trollope. Dispossession, Victorianism and 19th Century Word and Image

The French Comics Theory Reader

Ann Miller and Bart Beaty (eds)

Key theoretical texts on French-language comics translated in English for the first time The French Comics Theory Reader presents a collection of key theoretical texts on comics, spanning a period from the 1960s to the 2010s, written in French and never before translated into English. The publication brings a distinctive set of authors together uniting theoretical scholars, artists, journalists, and comics critics. Readers will gain access to important debates that have taken place among major French-language comics scholars, including Thierry Groensteen, Benoît Peeters, Jan Baetens, and Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, over the past fifty years. The collection covers a broad range of approaches to the medium, including historical, formal, sociological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. A general introduction provides an overall context, and, in addition, each of the five thematic sections is prefaced by a brief summary of each text and an explanation of how they have influenced later work. The translations are faithful to the originals while reading clearly in English, and, where necessary, cultural references are clarified.

Contributors Jan Baetens, †Gérard Blanchard, Luc Boltanski, Sylvain Bouyer, Philippe Capart, Erwin Dejasse, Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, † Jean-Claude Glasser, Thierry Groensteen, Manuel Hirtz, † Francis Lacassin, Bruno Lecigne, Pascal Lefèvre, Jean-Christophe Menu, Harry Morgan, Pascal Ory, Benoît Peeters, Jacques Samson, Barthélémy Schwartz, Michel Serres, Thierry Smolderen, Pierre Sterckx, JeanPierre Tamine, Serge Tisseron

Also of interest

n The Graphic Novel Jan Baetens (ed.) € 25,50 / £22.50, isbn 978 90 5867 109 7, paperback ann miller was formerly Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies for French at the University of Leicester. She is now a University Fellow. bart beaty is Professor of English and Department Head at the University of Calgary.

n € 59,00 / £52.00

n isbn 978 90 5867 988 8 n April 2014 n Paperback, 17 x 23 cm n ca. 385 pp. n English n Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels 1