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Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. Pavel Štichauer, Ph.D. (05.11.2023)
opportunity of learning about one of the fastest growing literary phenomena of the past decades. The aim of the lectures is firstly to provide the attendants with a socio-historical context to be able to understand the evolution and the changes of the medium from its direct predecessor, the comic strip; secondly, in a seminar approach, to go through critical and theoretical tools to analyze texts from different perspectives, reinforcing theories with a pathway of close readings of European and American masterpieces. The final aim of the course is to gain enough verbo- visual literacy as to be able to have a clear idea of concepts like styles, themes, influences, inter- and transmedia, as well as adaptation issues. |
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Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. Pavel Štichauer, Ph.D. (05.11.2023)
The course is aimed at creating a pathway of critical analysis and discussion about the graphic novel, offering students both an historical overview of the artistic and social conjunctures that have led to the emergence of graphic novels and the theoretical tools that are necessary to read and comment on diverse artworks. The close reading sessions will offer a chance to confront directly with the pages of masterpieces that come from some prolific strands of graphic narratives from Europe and US, discussing thematic cores such as voyage, post-apocalypse, mythology, the city and the suburbs, identity issues and the way they are displayed in such a hybrid medium as the graphic novel. By the end of the course, the students should possess a broad mental map of the history and the development of this verbo-visual art, being able to discern between comics and graphic novels and to discuss about the interconnections (and the differences) between graphic novels and other media; moreover, they will gain knowledge and critical insight about worldwide acclaimed masterpieces that have marked a turning point in the recent history of graphic narratives. |
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Poslední úprava: MA Chiara Simone (28.05.2024)
The course will be worth 5 credits. |
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Poslední úprava: MA Chiara Simone (29.05.2024)
* Primary literature Sacco Joe, Palestine. A nation occupied, Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 2001. Satrapi Marjane, Persepolis I and II: The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return , London, Random House, 2008. Spiegelman Art, The complete Maus, London, Penguins, 2003 |
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Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. Pavel Štichauer, Ph.D. (05.11.2023)
The course will be structured in 13 classes; frontal lectures will altern with seminar classes of group discussions of themes and topics from the selected corpus and with exercises of analysis and close reading. |
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Poslední úprava: MA Chiara Simone (29.05.2024)
The purpose of this course is to offer an insight and a critical traversal of the Graphic Novel, one of the most acclaimed storytelling media of our times. Graphic novel has made its way in the academic environments due to its achieved popularity, its practices of elevation to literary forms (novelization), and its data of production, distribution and reading across the world. The clear, broad definition of comics given by Scott McCloud in his pioneering work Understanding comics as «Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence» is still valid and universal, although since the 90s there has been a growing need for an understanding of the one-shot form of graphic novel and its peculiarities. Session I Visual literacy and semiotics; a brief history of verbo-visuality through times. Session II The circumstances of a success: from the satirical strip to the Graphic Novel configuration. Session III Graphic Novel, mode d’emploi: a prototypical definition. Formalist, semiotic, narratological approaches. Session IV Theory of production of meaning in graphic novels. Session V - An introduction to time in graphic novels; - The question of reality and aesthetics; - Art Spiegelman’s Maus: History, postmemory and metalepsis.
Session VI Graphic journalism: Joe Sacco’s Palestine. A nation occupied. Session VII Autobiographical voices I: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.
Session VIII Autobiographical voices II: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.
Session IX A graphic novel from Spain: Paco Roca’s Wrinkles (Arrugas).
Session X Italian’s first graphic novel Poem Strip (Poema a fumetti).
Session XI Mechanisms of transformation: Karasik and Mazzucchelli’s City of Glass. Conclusions. |
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Poslední úprava: doc. Mgr. Pavel Štichauer, Ph.D. (05.11.2023)
The course is intended for international students of both bachelor’s and master’s degree who wish to approach or deepen their graphic novel literacy and to gain insight about the evolution of the comics form. Due to its extensive coverage of history and theories of analysis of the medium, no previous knowledge of the topic is required to attend the course and to pass the exam. |