Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments: 1 (Comics Studies Monograph Series) - Softcover

Postema, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193336095X ISBN 13: 9781933360959

Publisher: RIT Press, 2013

Synopsis

In Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments, Barbara Postema seeks to explain how comics communicate and create meaning, with an emphasis on two aspects of comics. She first examines the pictorial quality of comics, which receives more emphasis than verbal/textual elements. Her second focus is upon the storytelling and narrative qualities of comics, as well as the literary explorations they provide. The "narrative structure" refers to the potential of images, the story telling capacities of panels, and the sequence of panels, in addition to the more traditional narratological concepts. Overall, the author presents a credible rationale for the way in which comics structure their narratives. At every level of communication, comics rely on gaps or absences to create meaning and guide the reader to a meaningful experience. RIT Press is pleased to announce Narrative Structure in Comics as the first book published in its Comics Monograph Series. BARBARA POSTEMA is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ryerson University in Toronto, where she is working on a project about wordless comics. She has published several articles in the International Journal of Comic Art.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Postema is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre at Ryerson University in Toronto, where she is working on a project about wordless comics. She also teaches in the English Department. She has published several articles in the International Journal of Comic Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: RIT Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 193336095X
• ISBN 13: 9781933360959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188