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Drawn from the classics : essays on graphic adaptations of literary works / edited by Stephen E. Tabachnick and Esther Bendit Saltzman.

Title
Drawn from the classics : essays on graphic adaptations of literary works / edited by Stephen E. Tabachnick and Esther Bendit Saltzman.
Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Tabachnick, Stephen Ely
  • Saltzman, Esther Bendit
Description
viii, 283 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"The graphic novel is the most exciting literary format to emerge in the past thirty years. This first ever collection of essays focusing on graphic novel adaptations of 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"--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Here there be monsters (and heroes): Homer's 'Odyssey' and the graphic novel / Paul D. Streufert -- Hwaet if? 'Beowulf' in comics / Jason Tondro -- Killing Desdemona: staging sexual violence in 'Othello' graphic novels / J. Caitlin Finlayson -- Illustrating the uncertainty within: recent comics adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe / Derek Parker Royal -- The good, the bad and the parodic in graphic adaptation / Eric S. Rabkin -- In search of the white whale: adaptations of 'Moby-Dick' / Dirk Vanderbeke -- "I don't see what a good book is without pictures or conversations" : imaginary worlds and intertextuality in 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice in Sunderland' / Matthew J.A. Green -- "Does that change anything?" (Post) feminist implications of 'Gemma Bovary' / Eric L. Berlatsky -- Drawing style, genre and the destabilization of register in a graphic adaptation of Trollope's 1878 novel 'John Caldigate' / David Skilton and Simon Grennan -- The masks of Dracula: in search of the authentic performative vampire in three graphic novel adaptations of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' / Ana G. Gal -- The picture and Dorian Gray: interpretive pluralism in graphic adaptations of Wilde's novel / Esther Bendit Saltzman -- Illustrating the abyss: an interview with Catherine Anyango on 'Heart of darkness' / Christine Ferguson -- Visualizing the unrepresentable: graphic novel adaptations of Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' / Martha Kuhlman -- An unusual adaptation of F. Scott Fitgerald's 'The great gatsby' / Stephen E. Tabachnick -- 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 -- Illustrated man: Ray Bradbury, comics and the authorized graphic novels / Darren Harris-Fain.
ISBN
  • 9780786478798
  • 0786478799
  • 9781476619767 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2015008556
OCLC
  • 895728895
  • SCSB-12725311
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library