Windows of Cognition : Contemporary French Comics and the Cultural Middlebrow
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Date
- 2017-12-11T01:00:00Z
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Notes
- This chapter deliberates the merits of whether French-language comics may be construed as a salient example of a new cultural middlebrow. It argues that the comics artist introduces new ways of seeing shared worlds, stressing the referential aspects typical of the literary middlebrow, but not of the high-brow, which is characterised by a high degree of self-consciousness. Moreover, where these special cognitive windows open out onto social and political realities that trouble a middlebrow audience, they can offer alternative, sometimes challenging perspectives. These claims are tested through analyses of Marjane Satrapi’s contemporary classic Persepolis and Riad Sattouf’s on-going saga L’Arabe du futur. The chapter concludes with a brief digression into the colourful, metaphysical universe of Joann Sfar’s Le Chat du rabbin.
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Langues
- Anglais
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Droits
- info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess .
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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