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Visual metaphor and drawn narratives: embodied cognition and expression in comics

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Number of pages292
ISBN (Electronic)9783031958007
ISBN (Print)9783031957994
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2026

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
VolumePart F4985
ISSN (Print)2634-6370
ISSN (Electronic)2634-6389

Keywords

  • comics analysis
  • comics production
  • conceptual metaphor theory
  • depiction
  • drawing
  • drawing style
  • embodied cognition
  • metaphor theory
  • narrative drawings
  • visual metaphor

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