Experiencing Visual Storyworlds Focalization in Comics - Theory and Interpretation of Narrative

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.

ISBN:	9780814215029
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Imprint:	The Ohio State University Press
Published date:	12 May 2022
DEWEY:	741.59
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	298
Weight:	229g
Height:	230mm
Width:	154mm
Spine width:	26mm

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