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By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition. This involves not just the exploration of those 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 that has hitherto been overlooked. This research monograph is, then, not an application of narratology in the medium and art of comics, but a revision of narratological concepts and approaches through the study of narrative comics. Thus, while narratology is brought to bear on comics, equally comics are brought to bear on narratology.

Twentieth-century study of narrative featured many successes and one grave failure. Narratology taught us the basics of how to study the structure of narrative, but proves to be a dead end in the study of texts. This was clear soon after Gérard Genette's groundbreaking studies, but later works such as Paul Ricoeur's fail to get beyond narratology. This paper therefore claims that narrative theory has not changed since its inception several decades ago, even though the need for such a change is broadly supported. Attention has been paid to expanding narrative methods to other fields like medicine and education rather than further developing the theory. I advocate a more serious consideration of contemporary literature to renew narrative theory.

1. Toward a transmedial narratology -- Part 1. Storyworlds Across Media: 2. The storyworld as a transmedial concept; 3. Narrative representation across media -- Part 2. Narrators Across Media: 4. The narrator as a transmedial concept; 5. Narratorial representation across media -- Part 3. Subjectivity Across Media: 6. Subjectivity as a transmedial concept; 7. Subjective representation across media -- Conclusion

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Toward a Transmedial Narratology -- Part 1. Storyworlds across Media -- 2 The Storyworld as a Transmedial Concept -- 3 Narrative Representation across Media -- Part 2. Narrators across Media -- 4 The Narrator as a Transmedial Concept -- 5 Narratorial Representation across Media -- Part 3. Subjectivity across Media -- 6 Subjectivity as a Transmedial Concept -- 7 Subjective Representation across Media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.