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Khodorenko","The article examines the definition and concept of the graphic novel as a modern form of visual literature, focusing on how its genre syntax organizes meaningful relations between significant units. Using semiotic study approaches and descriptive research methods, it outlines syntactic unit types and analyzes the relation between text and image, supported by illustrative material from A. Grecian’s «Rasputin». It also traces the genre’s development from adult comics and discusses legitimization arguments for mature readership.","УДК 811.161. 1’373 .23 DOI 10. 15421/462325  \nSOME ASPECTS OF VISUAL LITERATURE SYNTAX  \nA. Khodorenko  \nDoctor in Philological Sciences,  \nProfessor of the translation department of Oles Honchar University, PhD student of the professional translation department,  \nUniversity of Valladolid (Spain) [orcid.org/0000-0002-2086-8881](orcid.org/0000-0002-2086-8881)  \nIntroduction. Do you remember Will Eisner, one of the giants in the field of sequential art… a term he introduced and what is actually sequential art and is it the same as visual literature? What is the syntax of the genre, what are the significant units of the piece of literature of new era? The present article deals with general aspects of the problem of definition and concept of graphic novel, its modern version. Illustrative material, the material of investigation is the graphic novel of A. Grecian «Rasputin». As long as it still exists the problem of the term and definition herewith we make an attempt to characterize structural units of the concept, clarify some aspects of the definition and unify the term of the kind.  \nThe study the syntax of graphic novel is the part of the semiotic study of the genre. Actually, it helps establish certain relation between the significant units of graphic novel. In this article we chase the aim to define the significant units of the visual literature in general and graphic novel, in particular, in order to clarify the definition, term and the concept of the graphic novel as a representative of visual literature. To achieve this aim we should solve some objectives, mainly: 1) to describe the types of syntactic units, 2) to illustrate these types with the example of the material of our investigation, 3) to establish the relation «text-image», 4) to sum up the history of the development of genre with different terms accepted by different researchers and understand why and what is more appropriate one for our investigation, which has final perspective and aim to analyze translation variants and see the reflection of text-image relation in different languages. For meeting the aims of this brief analysis we use descriptive methods of investigation.  \nResearch methods and methodology. So, as we mention above, the researchers distinguish different types of visual literature and keep using different terms, from our point of view, to clarify the term, the definition, the concept, it is necessary to explore syntax, and the quality of syntactic units of the graphic novel. For example, as Ann Miller focuses on syntagmatic links between units of visual literature (Miller, 2009) and consider them to be meaningful for the aims mentioned. In this respect some tools of semiotics could be applied to learn more about syntax of graphic novel. What are those links inside the binary image-text unity?  \nResults and discussions. The transformation of the adult comic to graphic novel may reveal the importance of significant units. We shouldn’t be neglecting the fact that the term (graphic novel) was also employed for commercial reasons; that is, the comic-book has been usually considered tobe directed to a teenager and children audience, whereas the graphic novel is directly addressed to a mature and adult readers. The development of this genre owes to the development of the society, some extra-language causes which finally resulted in intra-genre changes and the birth of graphic novel. Let’s see a bit some important factors of graphic novel essence.  \nThe graphic novel has been defined as opposed to the comic book. as a medium eminently aimed at a child audience, the graphic novel has clearly opted for, if not exclusively, an adult audience. Sometimes, the graphic novel is perceived as an adult comic and precisely this point has been mostly emphasized in recent investigations looking for a way to find the definition. The importance of this point, as Groensteen (Groensteen, 2011, as cited in Gómez, 2013) emphasises comics association with children's audie","cbCaiuSRcFhBTSYx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuSRcFhBTSYx","pdf",538996,1,10,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Definition and concept of the graphic novel\n## Research aims and objectives\n# Research methods and methodology\n## Semiotic tools and syntagmatic links\n# Results and discussions\n## Transformation from adult comic to graphic novel\n## Audience, legitimacy, and genre development","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the article address about graphic novels and visual literature?\",\"answer\":\"It analyzes general aspects of defining the graphic novel and clarifying its concept as a representative of visual literature, focusing on genre syntax and significant units.\"},{\"question\":\"Which goals does the study set for its syntactic analysis?\",\"answer\":\"It aims to describe types of syntactic units, illustrate them using the selected material, establish the relationship between text and image, and summarize the genre’s development with terms used by different researchers.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article explain the difference between comics and graphic novels?\",\"answer\":\"It frames the graphic novel as opposed to the comic book by emphasizing adult readership orientation and discusses how misconceptions tied to children’s audiences affected the genre’s perceived legitimacy.\"}]","SOME ASPECTS OF VISUAL LITERATURE SYNTAX - A. 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