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, and spatial
realms in order to achieve effects and meanings that would not be
possible in either a strictly print or strictly visual text. Jacobs
advances two key ideas: one, that reading comics involves a complex,
multimodal literacy and, two, that by studying how comics are used to
sponsor multimodal literacy, we can engage more deeply with the ways
students encounter and use these and other multimodal texts. Looking
at the history of how comics have been used (by churches, schools, and
libraries among others) will help us, as literacy teachers, best use
that knowledge within our curricula, even as we act as sponsors
ourselves.
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ISBN
9780826444240
Publisert
2020
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1. utgave
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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