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- Title
Graphic Devices: Narration and Navigation.
- Authors
Drucker, Johanna
- Abstract
The article discusses the role of graphic devices as an integral dimension of narrative texts. Accordingly, graphic features organize the presentation of the textual elements and keep the readers oriented on the location within the story. It highlights that the graphic devices are elements of layout and composition that organizes and structures the presentation of narrative elements. It mentions that the graphic devices including headers, page numbers, spacing, and margins in print materials serve a navigational purpose in the reading materials. It states that navigational device includes the means in manipulating the sequence of the elements that constitutes the narrative. It says that the term graphic refers to the distribution and organization of legible elements on a surface.
- Subjects
GRAPHIC arts; SHORT story (Literary form); NAVIGATION in literature; WRITING; ART &; literature; AUTHOR-reader relationships; PUBLICATIONS
- Publication
Narrative, 2008, Vol 16, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
1063-3685
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/nar.0.0004