Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0814258298 ISBN 13 : 9780814258293

Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds illuminates how comics express what characters and narrators see, think, and feel. Drawing on the narratological concept of focalization, which describes the filtering of a story through the minds of characters and narrators, Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri analyze comics from a range of genres, including graphic memoir, graphic historiography, silent comics, and metafictional comics. Through a series of close readings—including Jason Lutes’s Berlin, Charles Burns’s Black Hole, Ellen Forney’s Marbles, Eric Drooker’s Flood!, and Craig Thompson’s Habibi—Horstkotte and Pedri argue that the visual form of comics storytelling is uniquely suited to invite readers into storyworld experiences. The authors break down the ways focalization in comics is cued by features such as color, style, panel size and positioning, and genre—showing how these features regulate how readers access the experiences of characters and narrators.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Silke Horstkotte is Professor in German Literature and Degree Coordinator at the Centre for Teacher Training and School Research at the University of Leipzig. Nancy Pedri is Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814258298
• ISBN 13: 9780814258293
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Horstkotte Silke, Pedri Nancy
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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