Unnatural Graphic Narration: The Panel and the Sublime

[...]I conclude that there is always already something "unnatural" about the hybrid visual-verbal comics form, and about mediated narrative (that is, narrative other than real-time or face-to-face communication) as such. Theorists from Fludernik to Phelan have, in different ways, taken fac...

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Published in:Journal of narrative theory 2015-01, Vol.45 (1), p.18-45
Main Author: Kilgore, Christopher D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Analysis
British & Irish literature
Comic books, strips, etc
Consciousness
Conversation
Danielewski, Mark Z
English literature
Gaiman, Neil
Interpersonal communication
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narratives
Noise
Prototypes
Readers
Reading
Semiotics
Sublime, The
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Summary:[...]I conclude that there is always already something "unnatural" about the hybrid visual-verbal comics form, and about mediated narrative (that is, narrative other than real-time or face-to-face communication) as such. Theorists from Fludernik to Phelan have, in different ways, taken face-to-face conversation as a "prototypical" narrative, and the predicative proposition as its "prototypical" interpretive consequence (Phelan 7; Fludernik 17; see also Jannidis 40, Eder 280-82), but books akin to STN demonstrate that, for mediated narrative, the deviations from the prototype may have more analytical value than the prototype itself.
ISSN:1549-0815
1548-9248
1548-9248
DOI:10.1353/jnt.2015.0006