Download and Read Graphic Novels and Multimodal Literacy Book PDF ByHeidi Hammond Total Download 18 “If you love books enough, books will love you back.” –Jo Walton Synopsis Graphic novels have attracted much media attention in recent years. Blockbuster movies based on graphic novels and the popularity of manga have increased their visibility. Bookstore sales and library circulations of graphic novels have risen markedly. Having lost the stigma of the lowly comic book, graphic novels are firmly entrenched in pop culture. This book examines high school students' responses to an art graphic novel and how those responses change after students learn conventions employed in the comic format. Readers' responses were analyzed based on Rosenblatt's theory transactional analysis, Iser's theory of gap filling, and Culler's theory of conventions, plus Kress's concept of multimodal literacy framed in semiotic theory. Meshing print literacy and visual literacy, graphic nove...