Ariela Freedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6006451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariela Freedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariela |
| FAMILY NAME | Freedman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aaron Kreuter. Leaving Other People Alone
Feeling your pain
Comics are frequently lauded for their affective capabilities, owing in no small part to both their dynamism and their affordances for depicting both experience and emotion. The potential to graphically represent feeling and sensation through abstraction is a powerful tool for the medium, but how deeply can readers feel into comics beyond documentary testimony? This paper takes up the question of pain language and empathy in fiction comics. Begin…
David B., L’Ascension du haut mal , and the entangled body in pain
Linking Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard’s theory of the dynamics of entanglement and Thierry Groensteen’s semiotic function of tressage, this article argues that David B.’s graphic memoir L’Ascension du haut mal (1996–2004) [Epileptic (2005)] uses plurivectorial aesthetic and narrative strategies to depict pain, suffering, and trauma. The book explores the intersection of illness and the counterculture in France, the violent networks and lega…
Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Narrative
Despite the popularity and critical impact of comics and graphic narrative, academics have been late to the examination of the field, and critic‐practitioners like Art Spiegelman and Scott McCloud have been the most influential critics, advocates and spokespeople for the medium. This article presents a brief history of American comics and comics criticism, which has long defined itself as emergent, oppositional and underground, alongside scholarl…
Global Joyce
James Joyce’s interest in accessing the global through the core of the local makes him a particularly suggestive example for writers interested in a cosmopolitan vernacular, particularly for those writing, as Joyce did, from the margins of Europe. Postcolonial studies have extended Joyce criticism through new readings of the global multiplicity of his work and through study of the translations that brought Joyce to new readerships, but have only …
Global Joyce
James Joyce’s interest in accessing the global through the core of the local makes him a particularly suggestive example for writers interested in a cosmopolitan vernacular, particularly for those writing, as Joyce did, from the margins of Europe. Postcolonial studies have extended Joyce criticism through new readings of the global multiplicity of his work and through study of the translations that brought Joyce to new readerships, but have only …
Global Joyce
James Joyce’s interest in accessing the global through the core of the local makes him a particularly suggestive example for writers interested in a cosmopolitan vernacular, particularly for those writing, as Joyce did, from the margins of Europe. Postcolonial studies have extended Joyce criticism through new readings of the global multiplicity of his work and through study of the translations that brought Joyce to new readerships, but have only …
Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Narrative
Despite the popularity and critical impact of comics and graphic narrative, academics have been late to the examination of the field, and critic‐practitioners like Art Spiegelman and Scott McCloud have been the most influential critics, advocates and spokespeople for the medium. This article presents a brief history of American comics and comics criticism, which has long defined itself as emergent, oppositional and underground, alongside scholarl…
Feeling your pain
Comics are frequently lauded for their affective capabilities, owing in no small part to both their dynamism and their affordances for depicting both experience and emotion. The potential to graphically represent feeling and sensation through abstraction is a powerful tool for the medium, but how deeply can readers feel into comics beyond documentary testimony? This paper takes up the question of pain language and empathy in fiction comics. Begin…
David B., L’Ascension du haut mal , and the entangled body in pain
Linking Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard’s theory of the dynamics of entanglement and Thierry Groensteen’s semiotic function of tressage, this article argues that David B.’s graphic memoir L’Ascension du haut mal (1996–2004) [Epileptic (2005)] uses plurivectorial aesthetic and narrative strategies to depict pain, suffering, and trauma. The book explores the intersection of illness and the counterculture in France, the violent networks and lega…
Aaron Kreuter. Leaving Other People Alone
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Comics (2 works) · Criticism (2 works)