ENGL 238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Free Indirect Speech
27 Jan 2018
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First graphic novel to win governor general"s award for literary praise. Deictic gaze: comics encourage us to take the gaze perspective of certain characters (skim and. Reading direction: in order to understand a comic you will read it differently than other individuals. Generally you do read comics sequentially, top left to bottom right. Synoptic reading: you see everything at once, when reading a comic you can"t not see the entire page and all artwork. Comic artists must work to design both sequential and synoptic art. No person does the synoptic reading the same. One can wander across entire page while reading, this is true within panels as well. Splash page: big colourful attention grabbing illustration, large full page panel. When splash page carries behind one page it is a spread. When large illustration does not occupy full page it is just a splash. Character perspective: in skim we are given skim"s character perspective.
