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