The Narratology of Comic Art
Abstract
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.
Keywords
comics; graphic novels; media studiesDOI
10.4324/9781315410135ISBN
9780367884949, 9781138221550, 9781315410128Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2017Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
American style / tradition comic books
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Superheroes and super-villains
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Media studies