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0814215025 pdf Experiencing Visual Storyworlds illuminates how comics express what characters and narrators see, think, and feel. Drawing on the narratological concept of focalization, which describes the filtering of a story through the minds of characters and narrators, Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri analyze comics from a range of genres, including graphic memoir, graphic historiography, silent comics, and metafictional comics. Through a series of close readingsincluding Jason Lutess Berlin, Charles Burnss Black Hole, Ellen Forneys Marbles, Eric Drookers Flood!, and Craig Thompsons HabibiHorstkotte and Pedri argue that the visual form of comics storytelling is uniquely suited to invite readers into storyworld experiences. The authors break down the ways focalization in comics is cued by features such as color, style, panel size and positioning, and genreshowing how these features regulate how readers access the experiences of characters and narrators. Read more