The Narratology of Comic Art

ISBN-13: 9780367884949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str.

Kai Mikkonen

Opis

By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition.

Recenzje

"The work embodies the inventive results possible when an adroit theorist explores a burgeoning field. I risk a cliché, although that makes it no less true, in saying: there is much to learn here. I speak especially for those who study comics but suspect the same is true for narratologists more broadly." - Jacob Murel, University of Memphis, Studies in Comics

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Comics, Narrative, and Medium

Part I: Time in Comics

1. Time in Comics

Part II: Graphic Showing and Style

2. Narration as Showing

3. Character as a Means of Narrative Continuity

4. Graphic Style, Subjectivity and Narration

Part III: Narrative Transmission

5. Narrative Agency (in Jiro Taniguchi’s A Distant Neighborhood)

6. Focalisation in Comics

7. Characterisation in Comics

Part IV: Speech and Thought in Narrative Comics

8. Presenting Minds in Comics

9. Dialogue in Comics: Medium-specific features and basic narrative functions

Part V: Narrative Form and Publication Format

10. Picture Story and Narrative Organisation in Early Nineteenth-Century British

11. Caricature and Comic Strips

Afterword

Bibliography

O autorze

Kai Mikkonen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland.