The narratology of comic art / Kai Mikkonen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mikkonen, Kai, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in comics studies ; 3.

Routledge advances in comic studies ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

ix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

"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. This involves not just the exploration of those properties in comics that can be meaningfully investigated with existing narrative theory, but an interpretive study of the potential in narratological concepts and analytical procedures that has hitherto been overlooked as well. This research monograph is, then, not an application of narratology in the medium and art of comics, but a revision of narratological concepts and approaches through the study of narrative comics. Thus, while narratology is brought to bear on comics, equally comics are brought to bear on narratology"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Time in comics

Narration as showing

Character as a means of narrative continuity

Graphic style, subjectivity, and narration

Narrative agency (in Jiro Taniguchi's A Distant Neighborhood)

Focalisation in comics

Characterisation in comics

Presenting minds in comics

Dialogue in comics: medium-specific features and basic narrative functions

Picture story and narrative organisation in early nineteenth-century British caricature and comic strips.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.

ISBN:

1138221554

9781138221550

OCLC:

957243130