Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments

Barbara Postema

ISBN 10: 193336095X / ISBN 13: 9781933360959

Published by RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2013

About this Item

An examination of the narrative and pictorial qualities of comics and how these help comics to communicate and create meaning. Series: Comics Monograph Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JM; AKLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 179 x 14. Weight in Grams: 564. . 2013. UK ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments
• Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193336095X
• ISBN 13: 9781933360959
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

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: Making Sense of Fragments as the first book published in its Comics Monograph Series. Take a detailed look at the narrative qualities of beloved comics in ways that will educate and excite the reader.

About the Author

Barbara Postema is Lecturer in English at the University of Groningen. She has contributed work on narrative theory, wordless comics, and abstract comics to Image and Narrative, theJournal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and the International Journal of Comic Art, as well as collections such as Comics is…, The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel, and Abstraction and Comics. She served as President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics, and was a Member-at-Large for the Comics Studies Society. Her book Narrative Structure in Comics was published in translation in Brazil in 2018.