Comics by Ear: Diegetic Sound as a Transmedial Entity
Комиксы на слух: Д И е Г е Т И ч е С К И й З В У К К А К Т Р А Н С М е Д И А Л ь Н А Я К А Т е Г О Р И Я
Delazari I.
2023Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Ltd.
Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie/ New Literary Observer
2023#179Issue 1118 - 132 pp.
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.
Alan Moore , audionarratology , comics , diegetic sound , transmediality
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The Department of Philology, St. Petersburg School of Arts and Humanities, HSE University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
The Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
The Department of Philology
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