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Piepoli, Angelo. "Wordless: Interpreting Visual Sequence as Storytelling: Towards a Semiotic-Textological Approach to Comics and Pictorial Narrative without Verbal Components." Dialogues between Media. Ed. Paul Ferstl. The Many Languages of Comparative Literature. Berlin u. Boston: de Gruyter, 2021. 157–76. Added by: joachim (26/06/2025, 15:50) Last edited by: joachim (26/06/2025, 15:56) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.1515/9783110642056-013 BibTeX citation key: Piepoli2021a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Language, Semiotics, Sequentiality, Wordless comics Creators: Ferstl, Piepoli Publisher: de Gruyter (Berlin u. Boston) Collection: Dialogues between Media |
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This article describes how visual sequences become storytelling. The most recent research on comics language has insisted that sequentiality, rather than the juxtaposition of words and images, is the main feature of comics. Comics made up only of drawings, for example, owe to sequentiality the possibility of conferring a narrative sense on the juxtaposition of those drawings. Turning to János Sándor Petőfi’s semiotic textology, this paper argues that, within the sequence, the satisfaction of textuality requirements – proper to verbal-text linguistics – such as connexity, cohesion, constringency, and coherence is what facilitates the interpretation of comic books, or parts of them, that do not include a verbal component, and make it possible to accept them as multimedia texts in a broad sense. The paper also attempts to highlight the active role of the reader/interpreter/producer in conferring narrative sense on a sequence of pictorial elements.
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