My original intention for this book was to provide a practical guide to teaching comics in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom, based on a series of university courses on visual literacy, comics and picture books. Finally, I extend my gratitude to my family and especially to my wife Eva, who has been incredibly patient and supportive throughout the whole process. I am especially grateful to Craig Thompson for allowing me to reproduce so many panels and pages from Blankets (2003). Extensive feedback from students has helped me to test and clarify the stages of reading that I present in the second part, but also to evaluate existing theories and to question concepts I took for granted. The Department of English and American Studies was instrumental in co-funding the print publication. I had access to all the (re)sources I could ask for through our library service and I was able to attend all the conferences I was interested in, especially those of the German Society for Comics Studies (ComFor), whose fellow members I want to thank for all their support throughout the years.
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Most of all, I appreciate the opportunity to make my book available via Open Access, which means that anyone who is interested in teaching literature, comics and auto/biography can download it for free. Without the generous support of the University of Salzburg this publication would not have been possible in its present form.
Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionĬC-BY 4.0 license. Open Access Funding was provided by the University of Salzburg. Printed with the support of the Department of English and American Studies and the Stiftungs- und Förderungsgesellschaft of the University of Salzburg. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress.
1.5 The Overdetermination of Literary TextsĢ.2 The Teacher of Literature as a FacilitatorĤ.5 A Cognitive Reading of Craig Thompson’s Blankets (Chapter I)ĥ.1 The Conceptual Ambiguity of Autobiographyĥ.1.3 Autographical Challenges to Autobiographical Genre Theoryĥ.2.1 The Autobiographical Act as Blendingĥ.2.2 Developing Autobiographical Reasoningīibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at.