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Title Drawn from the classics : essays on graphic adaptations of literary works / edited by Stephen E. Tabachnick and Esther Bendit Saltzman
Published Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
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Contents Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 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 good a 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 Bovery-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 Fitzgerald'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 -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Literature -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
Graphic novels -- History and criticism
Literature -- Study and teaching.
Graphic novels -- Study and teaching
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Graphic novels
Literature -- Adaptations
Literature -- Study and teaching
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Tabachnick, Stephen Ely, editor.
Saltzman, Esther Bendit, editor.
ISBN 9781476619767
147661976X