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Emotion in graphic novels: Caught between anxiety and fear, a reading of La isla (Mayte Alvarado)
| Resumo: | The paper proposes a scheme for understanding the levels that emotions establish within graphic narratives. It focuses on the representation of fear and anxiety in the graphic novel La isla (Mayte Alvarado, 2021). It shows how the visual narrative uses emotional events that are woven into a storyworld and provide a context for the characters' actions in relation to goals. I first outline a model for dealing with emotion in visual narrative and then analyse some of these components in the graphic novel La isla in relation to the visual and verbal elements of the narrative. I argue that in order to make inferences about the causality of actions in the story, readers must infer emotional states and reconstruct a particular context that is not given but open to interpretation. |
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| Autores principais: | Corti, Agustín |
| Assunto: | cómic emoción narratología afecto graphic novels emotion narratology affect |
| Ano: | 2025 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | CEComp — Centro de Estudos Comparatistas Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies | Revista de Estudos Comparatistas |
| Resumo: | The paper proposes a scheme for understanding the levels that emotions establish within graphic narratives. It focuses on the representation of fear and anxiety in the graphic novel La isla (Mayte Alvarado, 2021). It shows how the visual narrative uses emotional events that are woven into a storyworld and provide a context for the characters' actions in relation to goals. I first outline a model for dealing with emotion in visual narrative and then analyse some of these components in the graphic novel La isla in relation to the visual and verbal elements of the narrative. I argue that in order to make inferences about the causality of actions in the story, readers must infer emotional states and reconstruct a particular context that is not given but open to interpretation. |
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