03357nam 22006975 450 991033774070332120230810164755.097830301952679783030195274 (e-book)10.1007/978-3-030-19527-4(CKB)4100000008525471(DE-He213)978-3-030-19527-4(MiAaPQ)EBC5799355(EXLCZ)99410000000852547120190626d2019 u| 0engurcn#---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRewriting Humour in Comic Books Cultural Transfer and Translation of Aristophanic Adaptations /by Dimitris Asimakoulas1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2019.1 online resource (xix, 189 p.) illustrationsPalgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting,2947-57593030195279 3030195260 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Rewriting -- Chapter 3: Transition to comic book text. A different mode of engagement -- Chapter 4: Towards a poetics of humour -- Chapter 5: Repeated logic offenders: Comic Characters -- Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks.This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes’ plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time. Forging links between modern languages, translation and the study of comics, it analyses the Greek originals and their English translations and offers a unique, language-led research agenda for cultural flows, and the systematic analysis of textual norms in a multimodal environment. It will appeal to students and scholars of Modern Languages, Translation Studies, Comics Studies, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. Dimitris Asimakoulas is a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. His research focuses on humour, minority identities in literature and film, and translation history. .Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting,2947-5759Translating and interpretingComparative literatureGreek languageLinguisticsMethodologyGermanic languagesComputational linguisticsLanguage TranslationComparative LiteratureGreekResearch Methods in Language and LinguisticsGermanic LanguagesComputational LinguisticsTranslating and interpreting.Comparative literature.Greek language.LinguisticsMethodology.Germanic languages.Computational linguistics.Language Translation.Comparative Literature.Greek.Research Methods in Language and Linguistics.Germanic Languages.Computational Linguistics.418.02818Asimakoulas Dimitrisauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1061491BOOK9910337740703321Rewriting Humour in Comic Books2518941UNINA