Kai Mikkonen - Publications#

Google Scholar information:

Citations 1189 (562 since 2017), h-index 17 (12 since 2017), i10-index 24 (14 since 2017).

The most important publications in the last five years:

“The Rhetorics of Plot Function: Henry James’s ficelle, Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Perry,’ and James Phelan’s ‘Synthetic Function’ Reconsidered.” Poetics Today 43.1 (2021): 27-52.

“Diachronic Narratology and Historical Inquiry: Strategies, Principles and Metaphors”. Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research 37/Fall 2021: 137-61.

“The Vanishing Narrator Meets the Fundamental Narrator: On the Literary Historical and Transmedial Limitations of the Narrator Concept.” In: Optional-Narrator Theory. Principles, Perspectives, Proposals. Ed. Sylvie Patron. Nebraska University Press, 2020. 238-58.

“’The marquise went out at 5 o’clock.’ The Novel Beginnings and Realistic Expectations.” Frontiers of Narrative Studies 6.1. (2020): 4-17.

“What Does a Terrorist Want? Empathising and Sympathising with Terrorist Voices”. Neohelicon 2/2018: 553-574.

The Narratology of Comic Art. London/New York: Routledge 2017.

The ten most cited international publications (in order of the number of citations):

“The ‘Narrative is Travel’ Metaphor: Between Spatial Sequence and Open Consequence”. Narrative 15.3 (October 2007): 286-305.

The Narratology of Comic Art. London/New York: Routledge 2017.

“Presenting Minds in Graphic Narratives”. Partial Answers 6.2 (June 2008): 301-321.

“Subjectivity and Style in Graphic Narratives”. In: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels. Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Eds. Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. 101-123. (reprinted in paperback in 2015)

“Focalization in Comics. From the Specificities of the Medium to Conceptual Reformulation”. Scandinavian Journal of Comics Art 1/2012. 69-95.

“Can Fiction Become Fact? The Fiction-to-Fact Transition in Recent Theories of Fiction”. Style 40.4 (Winter 2006): 291-313.

“Theories of Metamorphosis: From a Metatrope to Textual Revision”. Style 30.2 (Summer 1996): 309-340.

“Transmedial Focalization Theory and the Narratological Challenge of Graphic Narratives”. Special Issue American Studies/Amerikastudien. Title: “Critical Approaches to American Graphic Narratives.” Guest editors: Daniel Stein, Christina Meyer, Micha Edlich. 2011. 637-52.

The Plot Machine: The French Novel and the Bachelor Machines in the Electric Years (1880-1914). Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi B.V. 2001.