Drawn from the Classics Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Stephen 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.“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>.
The 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.
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 271