Graphic trinities: Languages, literature, and words-in-pictures in Shaun Tan's The Arrival

Johnston, RR

Graphic trinities: Languages, literature, and words-in-pictures in Shaun Tan's The Arrival

Johnston, RR

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Citation:: Visual Communication, 2012, 11 (4), pp. 421 - 441
Issue Date:: 2012-11-01

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dc.contributor.author	Johnston, RR https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0520-5377	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-11-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Visual Communication, 2012, 11 (4), pp. 421 - 441	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1470-3572	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/23365
dc.description.abstract	This article brings together semiotics and literary theory, and notes the intrinsic and historical connectedness between words and images. It discusses the 'language' of Shaun Tan's graphic novel The Arrival and describes the use of traditional language as illustration, and the use of image as language. In doing so, it notes the work of the Russian theorist Bakhtin on the chronotope, and the related idea, developed by the author of this article, of the visual chronotope as a tool of semiotic analysis. © The Author(s), 2012.	en_US
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dc.title	Graphic trinities: Languages, literature, and words-in-pictures in Shaun Tan's The Arrival	en_US
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Abstract:

This article brings together semiotics and literary theory, and notes the intrinsic and historical connectedness between words and images. It discusses the 'language' of Shaun Tan's graphic novel The Arrival and describes the use of traditional language as illustration, and the use of image as language. In doing so, it notes the work of the Russian theorist Bakhtin on the chronotope, and the related idea, developed by the author of this article, of the visual chronotope as a tool of semiotic analysis. © The Author(s), 2012.

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