Drawn from the Classics

Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works

By: Stephen E. Tabachnick (Editor), Esther Bendit Saltzman (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 June 2015

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292 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.68

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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.

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"recommended" -Choice; "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"-English Literature in Translation 180-1920.

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