THE FRENCH COMICS THEORY READER

Key French-language theoretical texts on comics translated into English for the first time
''The French Comics Theory Reader'' presents a collection of key theoretical
texts on comics, spanning a period from the 1960s to the 2010s, written/>in French and never before translated into English. The publication brings
a distinctive set of authors together uniting theoretical scholars, artists,
journalists, and comics critics. Readers will gain access to important debates
that
have taken place among major French-language comics scholars,
including Thierry Groensteen, Benoit Peeters, Jan Baetens, and Pierre
Fresnault-Deruelle, over the past fifty years.
The collection covers a broad range of approaches to the me
dium, including
historical, formal, sociological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. A
general introduction provides an overall context, and, in addition, each of
the four thematic sections is prefaced by a brief summary of each text and<
br/>an explanation of how they have influenced later work.
The translations are faithful to the originals while reading clearly in English,
and, where necessary, cultural references are clarified.