Mike Borkent

Comics and Cognition (eBook, PDF)

Toward a Multimodal Cognitive Poetics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Comics and Cognition develops an analytical approach to multimodal communication in comics through insights from embodied cognitive science, especially cognitive linguistics and visual psychology. Mike Borkent extends previous cognitive poetic frameworks to the study of multimodality in comics, providing a cohesive analytical framework that connects comics to other literary and artistic interests. His approach highlights the embodiment of cognition, a process which structures knowledge in long term memory, and activates it through perception, mental simulation, and blending. These cognitive processes allow readers to make impressions, predictions, inferences, and eventually conclusions about a text. Many of these layers of reader comprehension are unconscious but emerge into a conscious experience of the multimodal text with a richly construed and nuanced texture. This book unpacks the dynamic interplay between the reader and the multimodal text throughout the processes of reading, including opportunities for interaction, interrogation, and improvisation of meaning derived from the reader's embodied and textual experiences, tackling crucial features of the comics form, and their impact on such issues as viewpoint, temporality, abstraction, metacommentary, and transmediation. The proposed multimodal cognitive poetics applies to narrative and art comics, in both print and digital media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197509791
• Artikelnr.: 69119493

Autorenporträt

Mike Borkent is an independent researcher and former lecturer at the University of British Columbia. He co-edited Language and the Creative Mind and has published a range of articles and chapters on comics, visual poetry, and Canadian and Indigenous literatures from a cognitive poetic perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* List of Figures
* List of Tables
* Chapter 1 - Introduction
* Chapter 2 - How to Talk About Comics and Not Fear Them: Literacies,
Fallacies, and Modalities
* Chapter 3 - Multimodality and Cognition: Perception, Knowledge
Networks, and the Construction of Meaning
* Chapter 4 - Paneling Construal and Viewpoint: Abstractions, Bodies,
and Synaesthetic Forms
* Chapter 5 - Expanded Viewpoint Networks: Metonymies, Metaphors, and
Other Blends
* Chapter 6 - Temporalities: Metaphors, Modalities, and Arrangements
* Chapter 7 - Spatial Conceptualizations: Layout as Viewpoint and
Narrative Strategy in The Underwater Welder
* Chapter 8 - Abstraction and Experimentation in Comics: Improvisation
and Meaning
* Chapter 9 - Conclusions and Extensions: Expanding Multimodal
Cognitive Poetics through Digital Comics
* References