Comics and cognition : towards a multimodal cognitive poetics / by Mike Borkent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borkent, Mike, author.

Series:

Cognition and poetics.

Oxford scholarship online.

Cognition and poetics

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Psychological aspects.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Cognition.

Modality (Linguistics).

Genre:

Comics criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Comics and Cognition develops an analytical approach to multi-modal communication in comics through insights from embodied cognitive science, especially cognitive linguistics and visual psychology. It extends previous cognitive poetic frameworks to the study of multimodality in comics, providing a cohesive analytical framework that also connects comics to other literary and artistic interests.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Comics and Cognition

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. How to Talk about Comics and Not Fear Them: Literacies, Fallacies, and Modalities

2.1 Modalities and the Battle of the Books: Essex County

2.2 Literacies and Fallacies

2.3 "Literacies Are Legion:" On Multiple Literacies, Multimodality, and Disciplinarity

2.4 A Cognitive Approach to Comics and Multimodality

3. Multimodality and Cognition: Perception, Knowledge Networks, and the Construction of Meaning

3.1 Cognition and Textual Experience

3.2 Perceiving Comics

3.3 Cognitive Topology

3.4 Dynamic Cognitive Processes

3.5 Conclusion: The Power of the Multimodal Mental Image

4. Paneling Construal and Viewpoint: Abstractions, Bodies, and Synesthetic Forms

4.1 Viewpoint and Construal: From the Body to the World

4.2 Abstraction and Viewpoint Construal: Interpreting Genre and Style

4.3 Agentive Bodies and Emotions

4.4 Materialized Sounds and Viewpoints: Synesthesia, Typography, and Balloons

4.5 Spatial Strategies and Viewpoint Orchestration

4.6 Conclusion

5. Expanded Viewpoint Networks: Metonymies, Metaphors, and Other Blends

5.1 Expanding Networks

5.2 Multimodal Metonymies

5.3 Figurative Metaphors and Other Blends

5.4 Woven and Extended Viewpoints

5.5 Conclusion: Expanded Networks of Presentation and Viewpoint Construal

6. Temporalities: Metaphors, Modalities, and Arrangements

6.1 Comics, Time, and/​or Sequentiality

6.2 Cognition and Space/​Time

6.3 Temporal Shifts: Timeline Manipulation and Blends

6.4 Designed Layouts and Temporal Multiplicity

6.5 Conclusion

7. Spatial Conceptualizations: Layout as Viewpoint and Narrative Strategy in The Underwater Welder

7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Visualizing Metaphors of the Self through Layout

7.3 Salience and Materialized Narrative Anchors

7.4 Conclusion

8. Abstraction and Experimentation in Comics: Improvisation and Meaning

8.1 The Problem of Abstraction and Simplicity

8.2 Dynamic Forms and Narrative Potentialities

8.3 Abstraction and Cognition

8.4 Experimentation as Metacommentary: Possibilities and Refusals

8.5 Conclusion

9. Conclusions and Extensions: Expanding Multimodal Cognitive Poetics through Digital Comics

9.1 Conclusions

9.2 Digital Alterations and Expansions of Multimodality

9.3 Toward a Dynamical Multimodal Cognitive Poetics

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 1, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-750980-0

0-19-750981-9

0-19-750979-7

OCLC:

1393257857