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Project

Always at Home in the Past. The Aesthetics of Nostalgia in the Graphic Novel

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. I proceed by applying media-driven approaches about nostalgia to comic studies, trying to built 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:1 Oct 2014 →  29 May 2018
Keywords:Nostalgia, Comics studies, Graphic novel, Literary theory, Visual studies
Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Other languages and literary studies
Project type:PhD project