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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
Time in Comics
part II|55 pages
Graphic Showing and Style
part III|74 pages
Narrative Transmission
part IV|42 pages
Speech and Thought in Narrative Comics
part V|34 pages
Narrative Form and Publication Format