Analogies à visée argumentative dans les romans graphiques traitant de la Shoah

Abstract

This paper examines the functioning of analogies in comics and graphic novels as a multimodal medium, and more particularly in graphic novels dealing with the Holocaust. Two questions will be addressed in the present study: (a) what triggers the argumentative effect of these analogies and how do they participate in the construction of an argument? (b) what singularizes arguments from analogy constructed in the “sequential art”?

Keywords

• analogy
• arguments from analogy
• comics
• duty to remember
• Holocaust
• pathos