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Print Price: $118.95

Format:
Hardback
304 pp.
226 mm x 160 mm

ISBN-13:
9780197509784

Publication date:
November 2023

Imprint: OUP US

Comics and Cognition

Toward a Multimodal Cognitive Poetics

Mike Borkent

Series : Cognition and Poetics

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.

Readership : Academics, students, and professionals in literature, cognitive linguistics, and multimodalities and media studies; general readers with interest in comic studies

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

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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.

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