포스트모던 그림책의 특성과 유형 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the picture books that have the strong post-modern tendencies. Also, this study aims to reveal the rhetoric stragies and forms thereof. The post-modern picture books refer to the works in which parodies, meta fictions, collages, multiplicity, etc. are often found. This study selected the following post-modern picture books: 『The Red Book』, 『Black and White』 and 『Beware of the Storybook Wolves』 in order to review the characteristics and types of the post-modern picture books. The aforementioned three books share the post-modern similarities such as nonlinearity, uncertainty, multiple perspectives and playfulness. Nonetheless, there are also some interesting differences in the configuration between these books. 『THE RED BOOK』 expresses the meeting between the boy and girl in a heterogeneous space with a symmetrical structure and then destroys it in the end. The last scene predicting an open end leaves a lingering imagery. It breaks the conventional flow of a linear narration. Instead, it recommends reading the pictures openly and multi-dimensionally. 『Beware of the Storybook Wolves』 repeats the playfulness of the story through the sequential configuration that quotes and varies the texts. The characters appearing in this picture book meet in the same space and create incidents with a great deal of trouble. That is, they create a series of unpredictable situations. 『Black and White』 presents the multiple and three-dimensional reading experience through the convergence and divergence of difference stories. It presents the nonlinearity of a collage or montage through the story composition that converges and diverges while breaking down the boundary. We would have an opportunity to understand the characteristics and types of the post-modern picture books through this study. Moreover, we would be also able to examine the great expression rhetorics of the post-modern picture books.