“The intellectual move Horstkotte and Pedri make here, from the granular detail of focalization to the abstraction of genre, is a major accomplishment. This is stunning new work, by far the most sophisticated study of graphic narrative I have read.” —Emma Kafalenos, author of Narrative Causalities
“A long time in the making, Experiencing Visual Storyworlds explores a diverse selection of examples in order to offer a highly original perspective on focalization in comics.” —Jan-Nöel Thon, author of Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture
“Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri’s Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics will … help introduce key terms from contemporary narratology, including those around focalization, and hopefully seed them throughout comics studies. The complex web of ideas the book attempts to present allows for a wealth of close readings, some of which future scholars will certainly return to, extend, and counter.” —Shawn Gilmore, ImageTexT