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)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Afterlives
• ISBN: 91-89361-13-X; 91-89361-14-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910747092703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II