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OverviewThe graphic novel is the most exciting literary format to emerge in the past thirty years. Among its more inspired uses has been the superlative adaptation of literary classics. Unlike the comic book abridgments aimed at young readers of an earlier era, today's graphic novel adaptations are created for an adult audience, and capture the subtleties of sophisticated written works. This first ever collection of essays focusing on graphic novel adaptations of various literary classics demonstrates how graphic narrative offers new ways of understanding the classics, including the works of Homer, Poe, Flaubert, Conrad and Kafka, among many others. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen E. Tabachnick , Esther Bendit SaltzmanPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.404kg ISBN: 9780786478798ISBN 10: 0786478799 Pages: 292 Publication Date: 01 June 2015 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Adult education , Further / Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface 1 Introduction 3 Here There Be Monsters (and Heroes): Homer’s Odyssey and the Graphic Novel—Paul D. Streufert 19 Hwaet If? Beowulf in Comics—Jason Tondro 33 Killing Desdemona: Staging Sexual Violence in Othello Graphic Novels—J. Caitlin Finlayson 46 Illustrating the Uncertainty Within: Recent Comics Adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe—Derek Parker Royal 60 The Good, the Bad and the Parodic in Graphic Adaptation—Eric S. Rabkin 82 In Search of the White Whale: Adaptations of Moby-Dick—Dirk Vanderbeke 96 “I don’t see what good a book is without pictures or conversations”: Imaginary Worlds and Intertextuality in Alice in Wonderland and Alice in Sunderland—Matthew J.A. Green 110 “Does That Change Anything?” (Post)Feminist Implications of Gemma Bovery—Eric L. Berlatsky 127 Drawing Style, Genre and the Destabilization of Register in a Graphic Adaptation of Trollope’s 1878 Novel John Caldigate—David Skilton and Simon Grennan 147 The Masks of Dracula: In Search of the Authentic Performative Vampire in Three Graphic Novel Adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula—Ana G. Gal 161 The Picture and Dorian Gray: Interpretive Pluralism in Graphic Adaptations of Wilde’s Novel—Esther Bendit Saltzman 177 Illustrating the Abyss: An Interview with Catherine Anyango on Heart of Darkness —Christine Ferguson 194 Visualizing the Unrepresentable: Graphic Novel Adaptations of Kafka’s Metamorphosis—Martha Kuhlman 205 An Unusual Adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby—Stephen E. Tabachnick 221 Not Telling, but Retelling: From Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style to Matt Madden’s 99 Ways to Tell a Story and Back—Jan Baetens 235 Illustrated Man: Ray Bradbury, Comics and the Authorized Graphic Novels—Darren Harris-Fain 249 Bibliography 263 About the Contributors 267 Index 271Reviewsrecommended --Choice; the volume succeeds...in establishing that 'while pure literary texts will always have their unique merits, graphic novel adaptations can bring a new vision and a new interpretation to the works upon which they are based, ' and I am delighted to have a host of exceptional work that I can reference the next time I am questioned about the 'dumbing down' of great literature through comics adaptations --English Literature in Translation 180-1920. recommended --<i>Choice</i>; the volume succeeds...in establishing that 'while pure literary texts will always have their unique merits, graphic novel adaptations can bring a new vision and a new interpretation to the works upon which they are based, ' and I am delighted to have a host of exceptional work that I can reference the next time I am questioned about the 'dumbing down' of great literature through comics adaptations --<i>English Literature in Translation 180-1920</i>. Author InformationStephen E. Tabachnick retired in 2020 after having served as an English professor at the University of Memphis and several other universities in the US and abroad. He is the author or editor of 13 books, including 5 on the graphic novel. Esther Bendit Saltzman completed her master’s thesis on graphic novel adaptations and has presented papers on adaptations of Macbeth and A Christmas Carol. She lives in West Hills, California. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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