A picture worth a thousand…words: wordless books and their implied reader

Abstract

This present thesis focuses on wordless books, which are a contemporary literary genre, with little or no verbal text, in which the image is the main narrative medium of constructing the meaning of the story. The first part of the thesis studies books without words, in order to define this new category in the field of Children's Literature, but also in order to explore the ways in which the visual mode, as a unique semiotic medium, can create an effective narrative, using a variety of pictorial strategies. The second part of the thesis explores the “portrait” of the child-reader that is implied in wordless books and consequently the required qualifications of the real reader, the difficulties he may face and, ultimately, the benefits he may derive from reading them. The present thesis is structured into four parts, the first of which is devoted on the one hand to the demarcation of the theoretical framework of wordless books and on the other to Wolfang Iser’s theory of aesthetic ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/52051
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http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/52051
ND
52051
Alternative title
Μια εικόνα ισούται με χίλιες…ιστορίες: τα βιβλία χωρίς λόγια και ο εννοούμενος αναγνώστης τους
Author
Papailia, Artemis (Father's name: Georgios)
Date
2022
Degree Grantor
Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH)
Committee members
Οικονομίδου Αναστασία
Γιαννικοπούλου Αγγελική
Πολίτης Δημήτριος
Βασιλούδη Βασιλική
Κανατσούλη Μελπομένη
Τσιλιμένη Τασούλα
Κωτόπουλος Τριαντάφυλλος
Discipline
Humanities and the ArtsLanguages and Literature ➨ Literature
Keywords
Wordless book; Children’s literature; Implied reader
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
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