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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