Inventing Comics - Rodolphe Töpffer

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Résumé :
In 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 T?pffer 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 T?pffer 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, T?pffer 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 T?pffer&rsquo...

Biographie:
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&rsquo...

Sommaire:
s scholarly corpus, Figueiredo argues that T?pffer&rsquo...