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SUMMARY:Characters in Comics: Some Medium-Specific Qualities - Dr Kai Mikk
 onen (University of  Helsinki)
DTSTART:20170620T160000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:How do comics present characters? This talk will take a look a
 t the means by which comics prompt their readers to ascribe traits and pro
 perties to their characters\, and construe a sense of a person. In particu
 lar\, the talk will focus on the main parameters of characterisation in co
 mics with regard to the characters’ mimetic (realist) function\, i.e. ho
 w characters can be perceived as plausible persons. The talk will also rai
 se the question of medium-specificity regarding complexity in characters. 
 \nExamples are drawn from a wide range of comics\, including a Disney and 
 a Punk aesthetic adaptation of Dante’s _Inferno_\, and a number of it-na
 rratives.\n\n*Kai Mikkonen* is Senior Lecturer of Comparative Literature a
 t the University of Helsinki\, Finland\, and a life member of Clare Hall C
 ollege\, University of Cambridge. He earned his M.A. at the University of 
 Iowa\, USA\, and Ph.D. at the University of Tampere\, Finland. His main re
 search and teaching interests include 19th and 20th century French and Bri
 tish literature\, travel writing\, graphic narratives and comics\, multimo
 dality and narrative theory. \n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS5
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