2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Rodolphe Topffer's Narrative Devices and his Cross-media Writings
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23520362
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
European literature (English literature excluded)
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
MORITA NAOKO 東北大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (40295118)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
MORIMOTO Koichi 東北大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (20182264)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | ロドルフ・テプフェール / スイス・ロマンド文学 / 絵物語 / 物語メディア / 観相学 |
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| Research Abstract |
Our research aims to examine the invention of a new medium "histoires en estampes", today called "comics", by a 19th century Genevan writer Rodolphe Topffer as a crucial point in history of narrative media. He made use of new narrative devices based on the formal specificities of comics. His experiments in the new medium were profoundly inspired by his reflections on "mimesis" in different arts, from the most legitimate genres (as academic paintings) to the most popular and marginal (as caricatures). We also highlighted the fact that Topffer was one of the first to suggest the usefulness of visual character or hero, taken from well known stories but made autonomous, in relation to the growing consciousness of national identity and the development of reading culture of the period.
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