Graphic Encounters: Comics and the Sponsorship of Multimodal Literacy

by Dale Jacobs

Book Overview

With the recent explosion of activity and discussion surrounding comics, it seems timely to examine how we might think about the multiple ways in which comics are read and consumed.

Graphic Encounters moves beyond seeing the reading of comics as a debased or simplified word-based literacy. Dale Jacobs argues compellingly that we should consider comics as multimodal texts in which meaning is created through linguistic, visual, audio, gestural,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441126414
• ISBN13: 9781441126412
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"