Abstract
The article explores the readerly ways of mental construal of soundscapes in comics and graphic
novels. As a visual rather than audiovisual medium, graphic narrative makes the reader’s inner ear responsible for its diegetic sound, which it indicates schematically by visual and verbal means. Since any storyworld space has default auditory parameters, it is suggested to consider sound as a transmedial entity. Delazari discusses some particular cases of sound deferral and supplementation in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero and Alan
Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon’s Top 10.
novels. As a visual rather than audiovisual medium, graphic narrative makes the reader’s inner ear responsible for its diegetic sound, which it indicates schematically by visual and verbal means. Since any storyworld space has default auditory parameters, it is suggested to consider sound as a transmedial entity. Delazari discusses some particular cases of sound deferral and supplementation in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero and Alan
Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon’s Top 10.
Translated title of the contribution | Comics by Ear: Diegetic Sound as a Transmedial Entity |
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Original language | Russian |
Pages (from-to) | 118-132. |
Journal | Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie |
Volume | 179 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- diegetic sound
- comics
- transmediality
- audionarratology
- Alan Moore