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Grammatikopoulos, Damianos. "The Language of Speechlessness: Wordless graphic and woodcut novels." PhiN, Beihefte 15 2018. Accessed 16Sept. 2026. <https://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft15/b15t02.pdf>. Added by: joachim (16/09/2026, 14:45) Last edited by: joachim (16/09/2026, 14:46) |
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| Resource type: Web Article Language: en: English Published BibTeX citation key: Grammatikopoulos2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "God’s Man", "He Done Her Wrong", "Mind’s Eye", "The Arrival", Australia, Gross. Milt, Kuper. Peter, Language, Narratology, Tan. Shaun, USA, Ward. Lynd, Wordless comics Creators: Grammatikopoulos Collection: PhiN, Beihefte |
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My paper examines wordless comic books and woodcut novels by focusing mainly on the following works: Milt Gross' He Done Her Wrong, Peter Kuper's Mind's Eye, Shaun Tan's The Arrival, and Lynd Ward's Gods' Man. Beneath the visual surface of these works lies dormant, as I would like to argue, a linguistic aspect that only a thorough analysis can unravel. By exploring the narrative techniques employed in these pictorial narratives, the interdependency of visual and linguistic signs becomes evident. The study aims to identify and name methods at play in the aforementioned works that borrow and appropriate narrative techniques from other media by utilizing their own mediaspecific means. The (failed) attempt to fully dispense with language, as I suggest in my essay, has called forth an innovative visual vocabulary and distinct narrative techniques that can only be encountered in wordless graphic and woodcut novels.
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