The Narratology of Comic Art

Kai Mikkonen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Comics, Narrative, and Medium

Part I: Time in Comics

1. Time in Comics

Part II: Graphic Showing and Style

2. Narration as Showing

3. Character as a Means of Narrative Continuity

4. Graphic Style, Subjectivity and Narration

Part III: Narrative Transmission

5. Narrative Agency (in Jiro Taniguchi’s A Distant Neighborhood)

6. Focalisation in Comics

7. Characterisation in Comics

Part IV: Speech and Thought in Narrative Comics

8. Presenting Minds in Comics

9. Dialogue in Comics: Medium-specific features and basic narrative functions

Part V: Narrative Form and Publication Format

10. Picture Story and Narrative Organisation in Early Nineteenth-Century British

11. Caricature and Comic Strips

Afterword

Bibliography