- Always at Home in the Past. Exploring Nostalgia in the Graphic Novel
- Busi Rizzi, Giorgio <1983>
Subject
- L-FIL-LET/14 Critica letteraria e letterature comparate
Description
- My project deals with the aesthetics of nostalgia in a corpus of graphic novels. It starts by investigating the critical framework regarding nostalgia, which I analyze from a historical, psychological, philosophical and sociological perspective, giving particular attention to the implications it has for present times. It goes on to apply media-driven approaches about nostalgia to comic studies, trying to build a typology of the ways nostalgia may be seen as a two-phased, interactive articulation of comic production (of which I highlight motifs, style and structure) and reception (which I regrouped under the labels of readers, fans and collectors). Finally, I proceed to some close readings of key primary texts (graphic novels) to test my hypothesis in practice and draw my conclusions.
Date
- 2018-05-29
Type
- Doctoral Thesis
- PeerReviewed
Format
- application/pdf
Identifier
urn:nbn:it:unibo-22821
Busi Rizzi, Giorgio (2018) Always at Home in the Past. Exploring Nostalgia in the Graphic Novel, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Letterature classiche, moderne, comparate e postcoloniali