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Using insights from cognitive science,
Comics and Cognition provides a cohesive framework for understanding how readers make meaning out of the many features of comics, including images, language, and layouts, and in a range of styles from realistic to very abstract cues. Mike Borkent unpacks many unconscious patterns and processes that support the why's and how's of the textual experience, showing how perception, interaction, synthesis, and improvisation produce a dynamic interplay between the reader and the text creating a unique texture to readerly experience, including the development of different viewpoints, senses of time, and metacommentaries.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 2 - How to Talk About Comics and Not Fear Them: Literacies, Fallacies, and Modalities
- Chapter 3 - Multimodality and Cognition: Perception, Knowledge Networks, and the Construction of Meaning
- Chapter 4 - Paneling Construal and Viewpoint: Abstractions, Bodies, and Synaesthetic Forms
- Chapter 5 - Expanded Viewpoint Networks: Metonymies, Metaphors, and Other Blends
- Chapter 6 - Temporalities: Metaphors, Modalities, and Arrangements
- Chapter 7 - Spatial Conceptualizations: Layout as Viewpoint and Narrative Strategy in The Underwater Welder
- Chapter 8 - Abstraction and Experimentation in Comics: Improvisation and Meaning
- Chapter 9 - Conclusions and Extensions: Expanding Multimodal Cognitive Poetics through Digital Comics
- References
About the author
Mike Borkent is an independent researcher and former lecturer at the University of British Columbia. He co-edited Language and the Creative Mind and has published a range of articles and chapters on comics, visual poetry, and Canadian and Indigenous literatures from a cognitive poetic perspective.
