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Existentialist Comics: Bande Dessinée and the Art of Ethics

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    Abstract

    This book explores the historical and artistic value of three bande dessinée (BD), French-language comics, that depict the lives of Existentialist thinkers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus. The work is the first to analyse biographical BD through the lens of Existentialism, offering a new theory of reading biographical comics.
    Original languageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Lang
    Number of pages216
    ISBN (Electronic)9781800792746, 9781800792753
    ISBN (Print)9781800792739
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 27 Oct 2021

    Publication series

    NameEuropean Connections
    Volume44

    Keywords

    • Existentialism
    • comics
    • Elizabeth Benjamin
    • Existentialist Comics

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