Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics (THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV)

Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics by Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri
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Dedication
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE • Focalization’s Action
CHAPTER 1 • Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics
	Focalization and Narration
	Focalization in Literature
	Focalization in Comics
	Words and Images: Jason Lutes, Berlin
CHAPTER 2 • Focalization, Experience, and What It’s Like
	Comics and Phenomenology
	Focalization and World Building: Josh Simmons, Jessica Farm
	Unnatural and Uncanny: Charles Burns, Black Hole
	Focalization at a Distance: Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
CHAPTER 3 • Graphic Memoir
	Subjectivity from the Inside
	A Meeting of Minds?
	Lives and Bodies
	Body and Style: Ellen Forney’s Marbles
	Tangling the Subject: Sarah Leavitt, Tangles and David Small, Stitches
	Searching for Symbolism: David B., Epileptic
CHAPTER 4 • Graphic Historiography
	History, Postmemory, and Narrative Ethics
	Framing Historical Knowledge: Art Spiegelman, Maus
	An Oblique History: J. P. Stassen, Deogratias
	Collective Subjectivity: Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié, A Chinese Life
	Focalization in the Plural: Joe Sacco, Palestine, Safe Area Goražde, and Footnotes in Gaza
CHAPTER 5 • Wordlessness
	Sans Paroles and Visual Narratology
	The Graphic Fantastic: Josh Simmons, House
	Border Crossings: Eric Drooker, Flood!
	Visual Metaphor and the Problem of Deixis: Shaun Tan, The Arrival
CHAPTER 6 • Metafictionality
	World Building and Destruction: David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp
	Beyond Pink and Purple
	Style and Rhetoric
	An Unnatural Narrator
	Writing and Drawing Create the World: Craig Thompson, Habibi
	Metanarrative and Metafocalization
	Multiplying Worlds of Experience
	Cross-Fertilization and Embodiment
CONCLUSION • Putting Focalization in Perspective
	Focalization Is neither the Same as Perspectivation, nor Something Completely Different
	Focalization Impacts Readers
	Focalization Provides Access to Lived Experience
	Focalization in Comics Is a Matter of Embodied Cognition
	Focalization in Graphic Narrative Is Marked through the Particular Style of a Comic
	Focalization in Graphic Narrative Is Bound up with Genre
	Graphic Narratives Are Often Metafocal Texts
	Focalization in Comics Is Particularly Powerful When It Is Ambiguous or Multilayered
	Focalization in Graphic Narrative Exposes Noncanonical Forms of Subjectivity
	Focalization in Graphic Narrative Structures Historical Experience Differently
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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