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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