期刊名称：Barnboken - Journal of Children's Literature Research
印刷版ISSN：0347-772X
电子版ISSN：2000-4389
出版年度：2018
卷号：41
DOI：10.14811/clr.v41i0.336
语种：English
出版社：Co-Action Publishing
其他摘要：The award-winning novels Legenden om Sally Jones (2008; The Legend of Sally Jones , 2018) and Mördarens apa (2014; The Murderer’s Ape , 2017) written and illustrated by Jakob Wegelius present a thought-provoking interplay between verbal and visual narration. However, an online data collection of blog posts and online reviews reveals that readers discuss the verbal narration and intersectional themes in these novels, but often overlook the pictures. This study contributes to the discussion of narrative interaction by juxtaposing analyses of pictures in the novels and online comments by readers on these literary works. The material thus consists of comments by non-professional writers, and the degree and type of attention paid to narrative interaction in these comments is foregrounded. In order to examine the word/image interaction in Wegelius’ novels, Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott’s typology for interaction is used on a selection of images and, when possible, on readers’ responses to these novels. The results show that in the material, the verbal narration is privileged. Less than a third of the online material explicitly comments on the visual narration. Even fewer readers comment on the relationship between the verbal and the visual narration. The study presents potential explanations to the relative absence of comments on the visual narration in these literary works. A likely explanation is that the readers perceive the symmetrical and enhancing relation between the verbal and the visual narration, and, thus, the readers consider the visual narration redundant or an add-on. Therefore, the article highlights the continuous need for explicit training in visual literacy, as the interaction between words and images has a bearing on the narration.
关键词：Narrative interaction;image analysis;picturebook;readers’ online comments;Jacob Wegelius;Legenden om Sally Jones;Mördarens apa
