Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books by Clare Painter

Equinox Publishing, 2013. 1st. hardcover. New. 9x6x0.

Hardback. New. Uses systemic-functional theory to give an account of visual meaning using three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and characters, the visual positioning of the reader through choices related to focalisation and appraisal and the discourse organization of visual meanings through choices in framing and composition.

Equinox, 2011. Hardcover. New. 224 pages. 9.45x0.71x6.46 inches.

New. Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying verbal text. This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of 'multimodal' discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of children's earliest literature. The book uses the principles of systemic-functional theory to organise an explicit account of visual meaning in relation to three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and characters (ideational meaning), the visual positioning of the reader through choices related to focalisation and appraisal (interpersonal meaning) and The book uses the principles of systemic-functional theory to organise an explicit account of visual meaning in relation to three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and characters (ideational… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.