Visual Metaphor and Drawn Narratives
Description
This book contributes to metaphor and comics scholarship by bringing together established theories of metaphor and of depiction and applying the result to the analysis of narrative drawing. Miers synthesizes two strands in recent comics scholarship: the analysis of comics as drawn texts, informed by art history and aesthetic philosophy, and the use of contemporary metaphor theory as a lens to examine how meaning is produced in comics. It aims to enrich and substantiate claims about the metaphorical characteristics of pictorial representations, and develop our understanding of how metaphor use is guided by stylistic features of drawing that are characteristic of the comics form.
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1. Introduction.- 2. Pictorial and Linguistic Metaphors.- 3. Conceptual and Non-mimetic Metaphors.- 4. Metaphor and Depiction.- 5. Style as Metaphor.- 6. Metaphor, Illness, and Embodiment.
