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Overview"This book opens a novel perspective on comics and literature interactions. It claims that the two artistic media have always maintained a mutual emulation, for as long as they have coexisted in media culture. To demonstrate this, the present research does not focus on literary adaptations in comics form but rather on a literary corpus that remains virtually unexplored: comics-related novels. The purpose of this volume is to inventory French comics-related novels and to study them. Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of bande dessinée through its novels, from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Although the comic strip – including the aptly named ""graphic novel"" – has sometimes been regarded as the disciple of an unsurpassable literary model, do these under-studied adaptations in novel form not rather indicate a mutual relationship, or even an emulation, between the two media?" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Benoît GlaudePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge ISBN: 9781032482729ISBN 10: 1032482729 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 08 October 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Comics-related novels Comics and literature A novel perspective on comics and adaptations Comics novelization and the visual turn of literary writing Two adaptation processes generating comics-related novels Towards a literary history of bande dessinée Chapter 1. Textual margins of early comics How to verbalize a picture story? Close reading: Voyages and Adventures of Dr Festus Captions rewritten as a bridge over redrawn illustrations Big Little Books and the French book market: a missed rendezvous From captioned picture stories to serials-under-images Mickey et Minnie, a precursor to the modern French junior novelization Chapter 2. Enunciative issues of comics verbalizations The literary adventures of Tintin An issue of enunciative responsibility Literary initiations to a visual universe Close reading: The Adventures of Tintin When comics fans write literary panels From ekphrasis to fanfiction Chapter 3. Why self-novelize a comic strip? The illusion of a deeper reading experience Comics artists and literary illustration A logic of supplement Close reading: Acknowledgment of Murders, Ric Hochet’s First Case From graphic to literary novels A logic of substitution Chapter 4. The comics heroes’ childhood told to children How to relate the past of comics heroes The literary prequels of French comics characters Multiple childhoods of a Belgian-Japanese comics heroine Close reading: The Froth of Dawn, the First Adventure of Yoko Tsuno Comics-related French junior novelizations When a comics character writes his own autobiography Conclusion. Reading novels as comics novelizations Comics on the threshold of literary texts Comics as a frame for multimodal storytelling Comics in the factory of literary writing Reading novels as comics scripts References Comics-related fiction Other primary sources Secondary criticism IndexReviews"""The relationship between comics and literature is not one-way traffic: literature is not only adapted in graphic novel format, it also owes a lot to the world of comics, appropriating its forms and themes in many ways. Relying on a strong theoretical framework and robust case studies, Benoît Glaude’s trail-blazing study discloses this less known but vital dimension of intermedial connections in modern transmedia culture."" Jan Baetens, KULeuven, Belgium ""The meticulous research and clever thinking shown in this new work represents some of the most influential scholarship in the last decade. Benoît Glaude is a scholar of the highest order and his nuanced treatment is rigorous and powerful."" Hugo Frey, University of Chichester, UK ""Up until now, novelizations had attracted little academic interest. Benoît Glaude’s compelling study shows the interest of looking into this little-known corpus of texts adapting comics into literature. Nourished by fascinating case studies, his book considerably renews our approach to transmedia cultures and opens up a field of primary importance in our understanding of the history of the ninth art."" Sylvain Lesage, Université de Lille, France ""This remarkable work of scholarship brings a new perspective and sharp analytical insights to the study of transmedia adaptation, while providing a master class in the close reading of some famous comics alongside the fascinating and little-known novels that they have engendered."" Ann Miller, University of Leicester, UK" Author InformationBenoît Glaude is a researcher at Universiteit Gent and a visiting lecturer at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He has published several books about French-speaking comics, including his PhD on comics dialogues (La Bande dialoguée, 2019), as well as a volume on novelization in children’s literature (Les Novellisations pour la jeunesse, coedited with Laurent Déom, 2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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