| As It Were: 17 asemic stories Contributor(s): Appel, Rosaire (Author) |
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ISBN: 1452865108 ISBN-13: 9781452865102 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $13.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.58 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "As it were" is a collection of seventeen non-verbal compositions that visually explore the story as a form. Considering literary forms, one sees that a poem resides in a shape that is particular to it and inviolable. A novel, however, exists in many pages that all look alike. A story occupies a limited enclosure with a consistent though malleable shape. Each story in this collection uses a different system of generators, each uses its own language. Like drawing, writing is visual and gestural, but with different constraints. Without the force of semantic content holding one's attention in a specific mode to the page, the differences between drawing and writing begin to soften and the act of looking and the act of reading begin to merge. |