dc.contributor.author | Rantala, Oskari | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-27T10:40:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-27T10:40:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Rantala, O. (2016). Superhuman Cognitions, Fourth Dimension and Speculative Comics Narrative : Panel Repetition in Watchmen and From Hell. <i>Fafnir : Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research</i>, <i>3</i>(4), 23-39. <a href="http://journal.finfar.org/articles/762.pdf" target="_blank">http://journal.finfar.org/articles/762.pdf</a> | |
dc.identifier.other | CONVID_27242222 | |
dc.identifier.other | TUTKAID_75106 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/55460 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract:
This article investigates the use of repeating panels in relation to
speculative fiction storytelling in graphic novels
Watchmen
and
From Hell
, written
by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and Eddie Campbell, respectively.
Presenting the same panel several times over the course of the narrative is an
expressive medium-specific narrative technique available only to comics. In the
discussed graphic novels, panel repetition is used to represent the superhuman
cognitions of the quantum powered superhero Dr. Manhattan, as well as the
magical experiences of Sir William Gull, the homicidal madman behind the brutal
Jack the Ripper murders in Victorian London. Both characters have abilities and
inner life which can be considered speculative, fantastic, or science fictional.
Furthermore, their extraordinary cognitions and experiences are exceptionally well-
suited to be represented through the comics medium, a narrative form operating
on fragmentary visual matter. Comics narrative can employ complex repetitive
patterns which
Watchmen
and
From Hell
use to simulate four-dimensional
simultaneity and detachment of time and space. Moreover, in “The Dance of the
Gull-Catchers”, the nonfiction appendix to
From Hell
that examines the history of
ripperology, panel repetition provides narrative evidence, takes part in speculative
play, and also works as a device for visualizing the disnarrated | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | FINFAR Society | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Fafnir : Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research | |
dc.relation.uri | http://journal.finfar.org/articles/762.pdf | |
dc.subject.other | Alan Moore | |
dc.subject.other | panel | |
dc.subject.other | graphic novel | |
dc.subject.other | graphic narrative | |
dc.title | Superhuman Cognitions, Fourth Dimension and Speculative Comics Narrative : Panel Repetition in Watchmen and From Hell | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201709223797 | |
dc.contributor.laitos | Musiikin, taiteen ja kulttuurin tutkimuksen laitos | fi |
dc.contributor.laitos | Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies | en |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Kirjallisuus | fi |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Literature | en |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | |
dc.date.updated | 2017-09-22T09:15:10Z | |
dc.type.coar | journal article | |
dc.description.reviewstatus | peerReviewed | |
dc.format.pagerange | 23-39 | |
dc.relation.issn | 2342-2009 | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 4 | |
dc.relation.volume | 3 | |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.rights.copyright | © Fafnir 2017. This is an open access article published by FINFAR Society. | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | fi |
dc.subject.yso | toisto | |
dc.subject.yso | sarjakuvat | |
dc.subject.yso | spekulatiivinen fiktio | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p11754 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1148 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p27925 | |