Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning Within Flexible Structures

by Maaheen Ahmed

Book Overview

Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich form of art. Maaheen Ahmed examines this trend by taking up philosopher Umberto Eco's notion of the open work of art, whereby the reader--or listener or viewer, as the case may be--is offered several possibilities of interpretation in a cohesive narrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496820185
• ISBN13: 9781496820181
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"