L’épisode titré des histoires à suivre en bandes dessinées : un équivalent du chapitre romanesque ?
The periodicity of the European comic book magazines of the 1940s and 1950s requires that stories of a certain size be broken down into weekly episodes, which gives rise to the famous genre of stories “to be continued”. Sometimes episodes of a serialized story have a title. It is then tempting to po...
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| Language: | fra |
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Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers de Narratologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/9013 |
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| Summary: | The periodicity of the European comic book magazines of the 1940s and 1950s requires that stories of a certain size be broken down into weekly episodes, which gives rise to the famous genre of stories “to be continued”. Sometimes episodes of a serialized story have a title. It is then tempting to postulate a homology between episodes of comics and chapters of novels. The aim of the article is to examine whether the titles of episodes displayed by this particular corpus is of the same nature and performs the same function as in the novelist context. For example, does the title of the comic episode tend to close the fragment on itself as does the title of a chapter of a novel ? An analysis of various titles in stories “to be continued” actually shows a great diversity, both in terms of the position of the title (at the beginning or end of the episode) and its effects (creation, fueling, or reduction of suspense). We draw the conclusion that, while the comic episode certainly shares the same status as the fictional chapter as a material unit of a fragmented narrative, the complexity of giving an episode a title in comics presents a much richer range of possibilities, due in part to the iconicity of the media. |
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| ISSN: | 0993-8516 1765-307X |