Afterlives : Scandinavian Classics As Comic Art Adaptations

• Autore: Storskog Camilla
• Pubblicazione: Havertown : , : Nordic Academic Press, Sweden, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 pages)
• Disciplina: 700
• Soggetto topico: Art
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Classics as adaptations -- Choice of primary sources -- Previous research -- Theory -- Method -- Part 1 Medium -- Peter Madsen's Historien om en mor -- Andersen and comic art -- The 'icon' and the medium -- Gridding, braiding, and the rhetoric of the page -- Time as 'icon' -- Reflections -- AKAB's Storia di una madre -- The book as object - materiality and structure -- The absence of God -- The triumph of Death -- The art of conversation -- Reflections -- Guido Crepax's La storia immortale -- The iconic lexicon of La storia immortale -- The 'poetics of absence' and its consequences -- Reflections -- Pierre Duba's Quelqu'un va venir -- The poetry connection -- The spatiality of poetry and poetic comics -- Repetition and rhythm -- The wordlessness -- Reflections -- Part 2 Fabula -- Guido Crepax's Bianca in persona -- In the beginning was the film -- Bianca in persona -- Form and content -- Reflections -- Ange and Alberto Varanda's Reflets d'écume -- The Little Mermaid's Gothic new clothes -- A medium-specific analysis of the Gothic -- Reflections -- Bim Eriksson's Baby Blue -- What to do with them? -- A female justice league -- Slaves to sanity and happiness -- Reflections -- Part 3 Discourse -- Bovil's Fältskärns berättelser -- A Swedish comic about Swedish history -- Carl Larsson -- Gustaf Cederström -- Louis Braun, Carl Wahlbom, Julius Kronberg -- Reflections -- Cinzia Ghigliano's Nora: Casa di bambola -- Second-wave Nora -- Woman as decorative object -- Painted ladies -- Reflections -- Afterword -- Notes -- Comic art adaptations based on Scandinavian source texts -- Illustrations -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Afterlives, the literary scholar Camilla Storskog investigates how classics with Scandinavian origin have been reinterpreted as comics. She sets out how literary works, plays, and films have crossed and recrossed the boundaries of language and media, speaking to new times and new contexts. Comic art adaptations have long been neglected by academics, so in this book the author considers them as unique visual media with their own aesthetic, technical, and narrative qualities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Afterlives
• ISBN: 9789189361133; 918936113X; 9789189361140; 9189361148
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910747092703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II