Thursday 21 May 2026 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Faculty of English Board Room
About
In the nineteenth century the world of the Japanese commercial book was enriched by books with engineered design: flaps, tags, foldouts, and much more. Inhabiting a rich media ecology that celebrated movement, these movable components acted as an invitation for the reader to become an agent of visual and narrative change. By exploring two examples--a graphic narrative and a sexually explicit mock-book--this talk interrogates the material qualities of this rich textual tradition to explore the meanings unleashed by the interactive nature of this type of book.