The Narratology of Comic Art

by Kai Mikkonen, Randy Duncan (Series Editor), Matthew J. Smith (Series Editor)

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. 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.

Genres: Academic

312 pages, Hardcover

Published May 9, 2017

Reviews

[Steen Ledet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exhaustive application of narratological thinking to comics.

[t · Rating 3 out of 5]

i think some concepts could’ve been more thoroughly explained or fleshed out better but overall pretty informative and useful