TY - BOOK AU - Markus Oppolzer PY - 2020 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783631823385 TI - Reading Autobiographical Comics: A Framework for Educational Settings DO - 10.3726/b17018 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068870 N2 - This book updates reader-response criticism as the foundation of aesthetic reading in the classroom by bringing it in line with cognitive theories in literary studies and linguistics. With the help of Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner‘s conceptual integration theory, which shares a surprising number of correspondences with Wolfgang Iser‘s The Act of Reading, it is possible to flesh out the latter‘s model of narrative meaning-making. In turn, this allows for a consistent reader-response approach to the medium of comics and auto/biography as one of its dominant genres. The fragmentation of comics narratives, but also of human lives and identities, requires such a theory that can explain how different perspectives and experiences can be blended into an experiential whole. KW - aesthetic reading, comics, autobiography, teaching literature, conceptual integration theory, blending, cognitive literary studies, Wolfgang Iser, experientiality LA - English ER -