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Intertwining Verbal and Visual Elements in Printed Narratives for Adults

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In the course of print history only a few successful models of image and word-alliances (e.g., comics, picture books) developed, while other types remained rather marginal. This chapter tries to argue why such different and experimental works as What a Life! (Lucas and Morrow 1911), La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France/Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France (Cendars and Delaunay 1913), Dynamik der Gross-Stadt/Dynamics of a Metropolis (Moholy-Nagy 1925), La Cantatrice Chauve/The Bold Soprano (Ionesco and Massin 1964), La Toilette/The Cleaning (Charras, Robial and Montellier 1983), or Narratology (Drucker 1994) in fact belong to a separate but cohesive body of works. Though individual works of this newly defined (by me) group of image and word-narratives may share some characteristics with better-known models (such as those of comics or picture books for children), as a group they use far more extensively typographic manipulations and special layouts, they experiment more freely with varying styles, and they can redesign the object of the book itself.

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Intertwining Verbal and Visual Elements in Printed Narratives for Adults
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