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Rebuilding Story Worlds

by Baetens, Jan

in Alta Plana / american history / american interest / american studies / architecture / Belgian art / Belgium / Benoît Peeters / Cites obscures / city-state / comic books / Comic books, strips, etc / comic studies / comics / comics and graphic novels / comics studies / communications / Critical Graphics / Criticism and interpretation / cultural studies / designer / fictional world / François Schuiten / French / french art / french artists / gender / genre / Graphic novels / historic building / History and criticism / literary criticism / LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels / LITERARY CRITICISM / General / literary studies / Literature / media studies / parallel world / Peeters / Peeters, Benoit, 1956 / politics / pop culture / popular culture / poststructuralist critical theory / Schuiten / Schuiten, Francois / social science / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture / The Obscure Cities / urban development / urban space / visual studies

2020

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Rebuilding Story Worlds

Baetens, Jan

2020

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A collaboration between Belgian artist François Schuiten and French writer Benoît 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.

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Rutgers University Press

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