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Graphic encounters : comics and the sponsorship of multimodal literacy

Jacobs, Dale, 1966- author

Overview

\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subject: Comic books, strips, etc., in education. / Comic books and children. / Literacy. / EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics
• ISBN: 9781441129567, 1441129561, 9781441126412, 1441126414

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
LB1044.9.C59 J33 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE