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Kai Mikkonen
Researcher at University of Helsinki
Publications - 34
Citations - 176
Kai Mikkonen is an academic researcher from University of Helsinki. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Comics. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 27 publications receiving 154 citations. Previous affiliations of Kai Mikkonen include University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
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The "Narrative is Travel" Metaphor: Between Spatial Sequence and Open Consequence
TL;DR: For instance, the travel metaphor is a way to think about narrative; it also provides one with the means to think through narrative as mentioned in this paper, and it is universally recognized as a narrative in our culture.
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The Narratology of Comic Art
TL;DR: The Narratology of Comic Art as mentioned in this paper is a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition, and explores properties in comics that can be meaningfully investigated with existing narrative theory, but an interpretive study of the potential in narratological concepts and analytical procedures has hitherto been overlooked.
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Presenting Minds in Graphic Narratives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the presentation of minds in the mixed media environment of graphic narratives, inspired by the notion of narrative experientiality as it is defined in recent narratology.
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"There is no such thing as pure fiction": Impossible Worlds and the Principle of Minimal Departure Reconsidered
TL;DR: The principle of suspension of modal claims was introduced by as mentioned in this paper as an explanation for the impossibility of total fiction that would undermine all assumptions based on our actual world, where readers reconstrue the fictional world as being the closest possible to the reality we know.