The Instantiation of Narrative in Picturebook Forms
The Instantiation of Narrative in Picturebook Forms
School of Education
Date: Monday 14 October 2024
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Venue: ARC Room 237C
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Professor Frank Serafini
Website: www.tickettailor.com/events/universityofglasgow23/1415227
Narratives have been instantiated across an array of materials, media, and modalities, including oral storytelling, film, novels, tapestries, comics, theater, and children’s picturebooks for centuries. In addition, narrative picturebooks come in many different forms, contain a variety of modalities, primarily written and oral language, visual images, and design elements, and are produced using an array of material and production technologies.
Similar to the continuing evolution of narratives in general, narrative picturebooks are part of an extended history of visual and multimodal communication and have been instantiated as printed codices, moveable or pop-up books, volvelles, electronic books, and as digital and augmented reality software applications. As narratives instantiated in picturebook forms continue to evolve, children’s literature scholars need to explore a wider range of theoretical foundations, including semiotics, multimodality, narratology, and ideological aspects of literary phenomena.
This seminar will examine how narrative picturebooks are embedded in an array of social, cultural, and literacy practices, specifically the syntactical, modal, compositional, mediational, material, technological, historical, and sociocultural aspects of the instantiation of narrative in picturebook forms.