Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters by Baetens, Jan

Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters

A collaboration between Belgian artist Fran ois Schuiten and French writer Beno t Peeters, The Obscure Cities...
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SKU: 9781978808485
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Author: Jan Baetens
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Language: English
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Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters by Baetens, Jan

Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters

€224,65

Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters

€224,65
Author: Jan Baetens
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A collaboration between Belgian artist Fran ois Schuiten and French writer Beno t Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, The Obscure Cities also represents one of the most impressive pieces of world-building in any form of literature.

Rebuilding Story Worlds offers the first full-length study of this seminal series, exploring both the artistic traditions from which it emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space. Comics scholar Jan Baetens examines how Schuiten's work as an architectural designer informs the series' concerns with the preservation of historic buildings. He also includes an original interview with Peeters, which reveals how poststructuralist critical theory influenced their construction of a rhizomatic fictional world, one which has made space for fan contributions through the Alta Plana website.

Synthesizing cutting-edge approaches from both literary and visual studies, Rebuilding Story Worlds will give readers a new appreciation for both the aesthetic ingenuity of The Obscure Cities and its nuanced conception of politics.


Author: Jan Baetens
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 06/12/2020
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781978808485

About the Author

JAN BAETENS is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium. His recent books on comics and visual studies include The Graphic Novel, coauthored with Hugo Frey, The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel, coedited with Frey and Steve Tabachnick, Novelization: From Film to Novel and The Film Photonovel: A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations.


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