Friday, May 2, 2014

Janice Bland 'Story as patterned cognitive play explored in Brian Selznick’s graphic narrative: "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" '



This term I am delighted to welcome Dr Janice Bland from the University of Vechta (Germany) to CLOC. Janice will be speaking on Friday May 16th, 4pm.


Story as patterned cognitive play explored in Brian Selznick’s graphic narrative:
The Invention of Hugo Cabret

‘A work of art acts like a playground for the mind, a swing or slide or a merry-go-round of visual or aural or social pattern’ (Boyd 2009).
This paper will suggest that The Invention of Hugo Cabret demonstrates how art, in this case a new kind of graphic narrative, can generate confidence – confidence that the reader/viewer can make changes and actually modify life events through craft and creativity. The emphasis will be on the woven and intertextual nature of storytelling, as realised for example in silent movies and The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I will illustrate how story can simulate the multimodal nature of experience and creatively rework it to engender new options – as a dress rehearsal for the future (Cron 2012).

Tea and coffee will be served after the talk.
St Cross Room, St Cross College, St Giles, OX1 3LZ

RSVP cara dot bartels-bland at stx dot ox dot ac dot uk.

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