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Phelps, Valarie L. "Pedagogy of Graphic Novels." TopSCHOLAR®, 2011. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1065.

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Graphic texts, or graphic novels, have spent many years on shelves with comic books about superheroes and adventurers. They officially gained notoriety in 1992 with Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and at this time, critics and scholars began to take notice. However, graphic novels have not been fully adapted by academia. Graphic novels have the ability to offer new levels of instruction and learning in upper-level classrooms.The following is a study in the multitude of uses of graphic text in academia. Chapter 1 looks at the history of graphic text to understand the present and future of graphic novels

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Hernandez, Fisher Carlos. "The design process of The Legend of Wild Man Fischer /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2353.

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Prévost-Levac, Caroline. "Defining graphic novels : the contentious case of wordless novels." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29545.

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Malgré la longue et riche histoire des bandes dessinées, leur définition continue de stimuler le débat parmi les experts. Ces derniers ne parviennent toujours pas à s’entendre sur la composition d’une bande dessinée, certains choisissant de mettre l’emphase sur l’usage de phylactères ou de lignes de mouvement, tandis que d’autres insistent plutôt sur la présence d’éléments à la fois graphiques et narratifs. Une définition impeccable est peut-être improbable, mais un problème mérite toutefois d’être adressé: il s’agit bien sûr de la constante exclusion des romans graphiques sans texte. Cette ca

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Johannessen, Lindsey. "Incorporating graphic novels into social studies based instruction an effective means of determining quality graphic novels." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/442.

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It is becoming increasing important that teachers educate students about social studies in such a way so that students are interested and motivated by what they read. So often the curriculum is bombarded with physically heavy, incomprehensible, and traditional textbooks. Based upon the need for extensions to the social studies textbooks, my goal to establish a guideline for selecting quality graphic novels fitted for elementary social studies instruction. Therefore, my study will attempt to answer the question: What is an effective means of determining quality graphic novels? Following my adap

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Adams, Jeff. "Documentary graphic novels and social realism." Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt, M. New York, NY Wien Lang, 2003. http://d-nb.info/990541126/04.

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Figueiredo, Camila Augusta Pires de. "Hollywood goes graphiC: the intermedial transposition of graphic novels to films." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-84ZQTQ.

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Comic books have always been consigned the children's shelves at libraries and bookstores. Recently, however, a massive publishing of comic books designed for the adult audience called graphic novels has caught the attention of academics, critics and the film industry. Despite the existence of a vast theoretical bibliography of screen adaptations based on novels, those theories can not be satisfactorily applied to the analysis of films based on comics and graphic novels, since they do not conceive, among other aspects, the translation of the drawing image in comics to the photography of film.

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Snowball, Clare. "Graphic novels: enticing teenagers into the library." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/791.

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This thesis investigates the inclusion of graphic novels in library collections and whether the format encourages teenagers to use libraries and read in their free time. Graphic novels are bound paperback or hardcover works in comic-book form and cover the full range of fiction genres, manga (Japanese comics), and also nonfiction. Teenagers are believed to read less in their free time than their younger counterparts. The importance of recreational reading necessitates methods to encourage teenagers to enjoy reading and undertake the pastime. Graphic novels have been discussed as a popular form

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Dallacqua, Ashley Kaye. "Engaged in Graphic Novels with Fifth Graders." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1290088200.

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Alishusky, Haley. "Illustrated Myth: Exploring Culture through Graphic Novels." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1526639815771596.

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Tonegato, Nicholas G. "Are Graphic Novels Just for Boys? A Study on the Interests of 5th Grade Students in Reading Graphic Novels." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1335289180.

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Saleh, Mohamed Zainab. "Story, time, and space : structure and three graphic novels /." South Hadley, Mass. : [s.n.], 2008. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/mhc/2008/267.pdf.

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Dad, Mohammadi Mersedeh. "Reading more than Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis." Thesis, University of Chester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620329.

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This thesis reclaims the analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. It is mindful of analysis of the stereotypical, and partial tendencies of orientalist representations of Satrapi’s work by both Iranian officials and “Western” media and readership. Themes are detected from this analysis and pertain to the message and intention of the author to create her work. The intentio lectoris1 (i.e. what audiences believe or led to believe) proposed that orientalist paradigms present the meaning of the work or Satrapi’s agenda, i.e. the intentio auctoris. Persepolis has been enthusiastically received all

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Romanelli, Marie Helena. "Exploring the culture and cognition of outsider literacy practices in adult readers of graphic novels." Open access to IUP's electronic theses and dissertations, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2069/202.

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David, Danya Sara. "Journeys of faith and survivial : an examination of three Jewish graphic novels." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2453.

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This thesis explores journeys of faith and survival in three Jewish graphic novels: A Contract with God by Will Eisner, The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar, and We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin. In each of these texts, the protagonists struggle with their faith and relationship with God, as they negotiate challenges as Jews living in largely unreceptive spaces. Along their journeys, the protagonists confront God in their own ways to try to make sense of the role that faith and Judaism plays in their lives. Drawing on basic principles of the relationship between Jew and God, as well as terms and con

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Takakjian, Cara Elizabeth. "The Italian Graphic Novel: Reading Ourselves, Reading History." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11002.

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This study seeks to unravel the intricate connection between a selection of graphic novels, the moments in which they were created, and the process of weaving an Italian cultural history. It analyzes graphic novels and comics from three periods in Italian contemporary history – 1968, 1977 and 2001 – and asks how the hybrid image-text language of graphic novels might provide a unique insight into the relationship between the individual and history in contemporary Italy. More specifically, it looks at how the comic medium not only reflects or represents historical events, but effectively re-writ

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Grice, Karly Marie. "A (Graphic) Novel Idea for Social Justice: Comics, Critical Theory, and A Contextual Graphic Narratology." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503329869170118.

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Kwong, Wai-chun, and 鄺慧珍. "Motivating secondary school readers using graphic novel." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50178507.

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English language enjoys a high status in Hong Kong. Many parents enroll their children to language classes at a very young age aiming to get them into well-regarded schools for a better prospect. One way that can help learners improve English proficiency is through reading. However, when local students are streamed into different secondary schools, the motivation to read is lowered. This thesis aims at highlighting the different learning contexts of our students that contribute to reading. A new genre, graphic novel, is used to investigate the effectiveness to motivate secondary school studen

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Dourado, Eliane Rodrigues. "Adaptações contemporâneas : um estudo sobre os clássicos literários em graphic novels." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2014. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/17027.

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, 2014.<br>Submitted by Laura Conceição (laurinha.to@gmail.com) on 2014-11-21T19:48:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_ElianeRodriguesDourado.pdf: 4529929 bytes, checksum: f11902cc52589e70385b793a62ffc6ac (MD5)<br>Approved for entry into archive by Patrícia Nunes da Silva(patricia@bce.unb.br) on 2014-11-25T11:32:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_ElianeRodriguesDourado.pdf: 4529929 bytes, checksum: f11902cc52589e70385b793a62ffc6ac (MD5)<br>

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Hardy-Vallée, Michel. "Where do the pictures fit in the overall picture? : graphic novels as literature." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=105367.

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Numerous artists and scholars advocate a literary consideration of graphie novels. However, their arguments seldom present a clear analysis of what makes graphie novels literary, let alone a clear definition ofliterature. This thesis seeks to fill in these explanatory gaps by arguing for the literary consideration of graphie novels, understood as a genre within comics, on the basis of an institutional theory of literature. As this theory posits a shared practice of production and appreciation of artistic value, the value of a literary work is not exclusively tied to the linguistic medium. On t

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Takahashi, Thiago Seiji. "A potencialidade dos quadrinhos na educação corporativa: gibis impressos, digitais e Graphic Novels." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27153/tde-14012016-100117/.

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As histórias em quadrinhos foram definidas como arte sequencial e costumam ser popularmente associadas como um veículo de comunicação voltadas para o entretenimento. No entanto existem histórias em quadrinhos que são destinadas ao uso na educação, na transmissão de informações e na construção de conhecimentos específicos para o aperfeiçoamento profissional e humano. Este projeto teve como objetivo analisar a potencialidade dos quadrinhos na educação corporativa no Brasil, com recorte em São Paulo. Para atingir esse objetivo, o trabalho abordou algumas definições básicas sobre histórias em quad

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Ehret, Sara R. "Using the Graphic Novel to Assist in Developing Various First-Year Composition Writing Skills." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1342449458.

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Kane, Brian M. "ADAPTING THE GRAPHIC NOVEL FORMAT FOR UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL TEXTBOOKS." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1368726512.

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Matthews, Casey Posey. "Making sense of the gutters: How advanced-level English teachers use graphic novels." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1623955126547402.

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Blair, S. "The language of narrative drawing : a close reading of contemporary graphic novels." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2013. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/22645/.

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The study offers an alternative analytical framework for thinking about the contemporary graphic novel as a dynamic area of visual art practice. Graphic narratives are placed within the broad, open-ended territory of investigative drawing, rather than restricted to a special category of literature, as is more usually the case. The analysis considers how narrative ideas and energies are carried across specific examples of work graphically. Using analogies taken from recent academic debate around translation, aspects of Performance Studies, and, finally, common categories borrowed from linguisti

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Proszek, James Michael. "Drawn Apart: Visual Representations of the Persian Wars in Contemporary Graphic Novels and Film." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1833.

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Over the past two millennia, dominant Western narratives of the Persian Wars have established a problematic East-West binary in which Greece is represented as a defender of democracy whose improbable victory over the Persians laid the foundation for the development of Western civilization and the Persians are represented as a power hungry, totalitarian “Other” determined to subjugate all whom they encounter. Frank Miller’s graphic novel, 300, and its subsequent film adaptations, 300, and 300: Rise of an Empire (collectively referred to as the 300 franchise) have reinforced and contributed new

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Greenfield, David. "Beyond Super Heroes and Talking Animals| Social Justice in Graphic Novels in Education." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10636592.

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<p>The primary goal of this study was to investigate, document, and understand the reasons that educators who use graphic novels in their classrooms choose to use them, rather than traditional text. Secondary goals were to identify the classes they teach, and to identify commonalities and shared best practices. Interviews were scheduled, to provide the with data about learning objectives, students? reactions, the books they use, types of assignments, the criteria that they use to define the critical elements for success in their classes, as well as the instructors? own relationships with graph

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Guarino, Jeffrey Mark. "Comix in the classroom: A resource guide for graphic novels and comic books." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1503.

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Stephens, Wendy Steadman. "The Influence of Engagement with Graphic Narrative Text Formats on Student Attitudes Towards the School Library." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700038/.

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Comics, graphic novels, and manga differ appreciably from textual narrative formats, and materials with increasingly visual elements have found their way into progressive and student-centered library collections. But many educators and librarians still resist inclusion of graphic narratives in school libraries and devalue the reading practice of students who prefer more visual texts. Using the framework of radical change, which posits that both text conventions and reader expectations for text are increasingly multimodal as they possess characteristics of evolving digital media, this study con

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Smida, Megan Alice Moore Alan. "(Re)telling Ripper in Alan Moore's From hell : history and narrative in the graphic novel." Dayton, Ohio : University of Dayton, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1272574121.

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Thesis (M.A. in English) -- University of Dayton.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed 06/23/10). Advisor: James Boehnlein. Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-46). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center.

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Childress, Kirby. "A Phenomenology of Closet Trauma: Visual Empathy in Contemporary French Film and Graphic Novels." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1618915090413157.

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Orihuela-Gruber, Daniella. "Political cartoons and graphic novels a study of political and social commentary in comics /." Click here to view, 2009. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/joursp/7/.

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Thesis (B.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009.<br>Project advisor: Patrick Munroe. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Apr. 19, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.

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Willms, Jennifer [Verfasser], Dietrich [Gutachter] Grünewald, and Andreas [Gutachter] Ackermann. "Jüdische Aspekte in Will Eisners Graphic Novels / Jennifer Willms ; Gutachter: Dietrich Grünewald, Andreas Ackermann." Koblenz, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1185487271/34.

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Ghirotti, Joaquim Cardia. "Frank Miller e os quadrinhos pelo que vale a pena morrer." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-05092017-092333/.

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As décadas de 1980-1990 marcam um ponto importante da história das revistas de quadrinhos de super-heróis. Mudanças no mercado, no público, na política, nos debates morais e culturais do momento ofereceram um cenário propício para novos desenvolvimentos no gênero super-herói. Esse quadro é cercado pelo pós-modernismo, a urbanização, a contracultura, mudanças nas artes e condições políticas que se desenvolvem da Guerra Fria, geograficamente centrada entre a Europa e os Estados Unidos, para a Guerra do Iraque, o que desloca atenções geopolíticas e conflitos para o Oriente Médio. Os quadrinhos de

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Scherpenhuizen, Johannes. "Dutch Technique: Comic Books, Discourse and Vedanta/The Saga of the Atlantean." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28060.

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Dutch Technique is a work of experimental art which refuses classification and emerges variously in the form of comic-book pages, non-fiction writings, prose fiction, poetry and visual art. DT questions traditional binary modes of thinking which contrast sciences and arts, high arts and low arts, academic and non-academic discourse, science and religion/mysticism, and eschews discriminatory tribalism. It explores the inexhaustibility of the text, ideas and being in the form of comedy, drama, rhetoric, philosophical analysis and synthesis, poetic evocation and drama, liturgy and ritual. Its pri

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Whipple, Rachel Dene. "Interconnectedness, Complicity and Ambiguity: Reading with Dark Ecology." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6090.

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There are many aspects of ecological thinking. When reading texts through a lens of dark ecology, certain conflicts that arise from the imposition of human expectations on natural systems are revealed. These include interconnectedness, complicity, and ambiguities. Within a system, boundaries are contingent and transitory. Beginnings and ends are gradual, not definite. Ecological systems change over time, but it is a category error to imagine that change represents progress or to assume a teleological purpose. While there are hierarchies of power, and different roles, no species is, ecologicall

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Anderson, Terpstra Kristin. "Spreading the word : fan translations of manga in a global context." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3423.

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Manga, or Japanese comic books, are one of the newest popular media imports from Japan to garner a sizable following in the U.S. Shortly before the establishment of an American manga publishing industry and the investment in resources to publish manga legally, fans calling themselves scanslators or scanlators (scan + translators) began translating Japanese manga themselves and distributing it to other fans through the Internet. This dissertation focuses on the manga importation process from several different angles, comparing within each the struggles and similarities between the actions and m

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Schumaker, Justin S. "Discovering the postmodern graphic novel in the works of Alan Moore." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1326.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English

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Voss, Christina Linda. "Understanding the Use of Graphic Novels to Support the Writing Skills of a Struggling Writer." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/705.

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This mixed methods study combining a single-subject experimental design with an embedded case study focuses on the impact of a visual treatment on the handwritten and typed output of a struggling male writer during his 5 th through 7 th grades who has undergone a longitudinal remedial phase of two and a half years creating text-only material as well as graphic novels (on paper, on the computer, and online). The purpose of this research was to develop and assess the effectiveness and practicability of a visual treatment in order to help this high-achieving student with excellent comprehension

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Laycock, Dianne Patricia. "Pilgrimage In A Foreign Land: The Lived Experience Of Teaching With Graphic Novels In The Secondary English Classroom." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17250.

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In the context of a multimodal and multimediated textual landscape, a substantial body of research and literature endorses the value of graphic novels as a means to provide authentic literacy experiences for students. A less substantial body of discourse, however, submits that graphic novels have not been embraced as classroom texts to any great extent by teachers. To investigate this disjuncture between theory and practice, and to add to the small body of research on teachers’ practice with the graphic novel format of the comics medium, this study explores nine teachers’ experiences with grap

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Lombard-Cook, Kathleen. "Interrogating and analysing narrative structure through comic books." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23507.

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How can the structures of graphic narratives help us to interrogate, analyse, and ultimately ground stories of ourselves and our world? By not relying solely on verbal or visual language, but the complex interplay between multiple signification strategies, comics open up possibilities for transcending the limits of any single linguistic mode and more fully enunciating the complex layers of superimposed truths that make up our lived experiences. In this doctoral project, I utilize media-specific analysis of graphic narratives and interrogate the multi-modal communication strategies inherent in

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Ernsth, Bravell Gunnar. "More Than a Stepping-Stone? : A Study of the Uses of Comics and Graphic Novels as Multimodal Teaching Material in English Courses at Upper and Lower Secondary Schools in Sweden." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-50818.

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The aim of this study is to examine upper and lower secondary school teachers’ experiences of using graphic novels in the English subject in Swedish schools in order to discuss if, and how, multimodal texts can be used to increase students’ motivation to read and analyze fictional texts. This is done through qualitative semi-structured interviews with 12 participants currently working as English teachers from both upper and lower secondary schools in Sweden. The framework of this study centers around the concept of multimodality, multimodal literacy and how it can be used in the English classr

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Goforth, Andrew. "POST APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE AND THE STATE: SCIENCE FICTION AND STORYWORLDS." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2185.

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Mary Manjikian and other critics argue that post-911 apocalyptic Literature is anarchic, breaking away from the state through its destruction. This thesis challenges this claim, looking at the state through the abstract form presented by Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus to argue that while the state in its physical manifestation is indeed removed within the post-apocalyptic narrative, an internal desire for governance and a return to status-quo remains. Chapter 1 examines Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road in relation to this theory, particularly within the interactions between the

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Sadokierski, Zoe. "Visual writing : a critique of graphic devices in hybrid novels from a visual communication design perpsective /." Electronic version, 2009. http://utsescholarship.lib.uts.edu.au/iresearch/scholarly-works/handle/2100/1042.

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Moeller, Robin Ann. ""No thanks, those are boy books" a feminist cultural analysis of graphic novels as curricular materials /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3331264.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Education, 2008.<br>Title from home page (viewed on Jul 24, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-11, Section: A, page: 4231. Advisers: David Flinders; Marilyn Irwin.

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Gauche, Catherine. "Reading the distance : decoding the autobio(graphic) novel, Portrait in pieces." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1980.

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Thesis (MPhil (Visual Arts. Illustration))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>The aim of this thesis is to decode my autobiographic graphic novel, Portrait in Pieces (a narrative of a mother / daughter relationship), utilising a genealogical mode of analysis. This takes place, firstly, through a discussion of the themes of photography, memory and repetition which occur in the graphic novel; secondly, through a consideration of the role of language and difference within a specific mother / daughter relationship; and thirdly, through the study of autobiography and the self as performative ent

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Le, Roux Marike. "Narrating an unstable memory : a postmodern study of fictional pasts in the (auto/bio)graphic novel." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/79942.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To write a life story the auto/biographer must reflect upon the past that was once experienced. When presented with this task of depending on memory and narrative, the auto/biographer often finds himself/herself in the position of creating and imagining, rather than reflecting or presenting the past as it was lived. Fragmentation, forgetfulness, selection, (re)construction and imagination are often inextricably connected to Memory which results in the reliance on an unstable memory to access the past. This dissertation explores

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Howell, Anna. "Insavoir and Representation in Comics| Modal and Temporal Intersections in Contemporary Francophone Familial and Historical Graphic Novels." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3712439.

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<p> French literary theorists Dominique Viart and Bruno Vercier identify the beginning of a new era for French literature in the 1980s, characterized by hypotheses, hesitations, and the general notion that truth and reality cannot be fully grasped by discourse. The 1980s can be considered as transitional for the comics medium as well. Art Spiegelman's <i>Maus</i> (first published in 1980, completed in 1991) demonstrated that comics are not only capable of representing difficult familial and historical pasts, but that visual narratives benefit from formal and aesthetic devices that are inherent

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Wilson, Robyn Joan. "Last Man Hanging This exegisis is submitted to the Auckland University of Technology for the degree of Bachelor in Art & Design, Honours,(Graphic Design). 2005 /." Full dissertation Abstract, 2005.

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Dissertation (BA (Hons)--Bachelor of Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2005.<br>Print copy accompanied by CD. Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (99 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm. + CD (3 in.)) in City Campus Theses Collection (T 707 WIL)

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Capan, Emily. "COMICS AS VEHICLES FOR UNDERSTANDING SYNTHESIS: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2448.

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The purpose of this project is to argue the effectiveness of utilizing comics as a learning tool in the first-year composition classroom to help students better understand synthesis. The two main features of comics that help teach synthesis are comic panels and comic closure. Library research was conducted to give insight into the history and terminology of comics, the value of comics in the classroom and in the field of rhetoric and composition, the practicality of using visual rhetoric and literacy in the classroom, and synthesis in the first-year composition classroom. I furthered my resear

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Dycus, Dallas. "Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: Honing the Hybridity of the Graphic Novel." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/47.

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The genre of comics has had a tumultuous career throughout the twentieth century: it has careened from wildly popular to being perceived as the source of society’s ills. Despite having been relegated to the lowest rung of the artistic ladder for the better part of the twentieth century, comics has been gaining in quality and respectability over the last couple of decades. My introductory chapter provides a broad, basic introduction to the genre of comics––its historical development, its different forms, and a survey of comics criticism over the last thirty years. In chapter two I clarify the n

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