Afterlives : Scandinavian classics as comic art adaptations / Camilla Storskog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Storskog, Camilla, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swedish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Guido Crepax's La storia immortale

The iconic lexicon of La storia immortale

The 'poetics of absence' and its consequences

Pierre Duba's Quelqu'un va venir

The poetry connection

The spatiality of poetry and poetic comics

Repetition and rhythm

The wordlessness

Part 2 Fabula

Guido Crepax's Bianca in persona

In the beginning was the film

Bianca in persona

Form and content

Ange and Alberto Varanda's Reflets d'écume

The Little Mermaid's Gothic new clothes

A medium-specific analysis of the Gothic

Bim Eriksson's Baby Blue

What to do with them?

A female justice league

Slaves to sanity and happiness

Part 3 Discourse

Bovil's Fältskärns berättelser

A Swedish comic about Swedish history

Carl Larsson

Gustaf Cederström

Louis Braun, Carl Wahlbom, Julius Kronberg

Cinzia Ghigliano's Nora: Casa di bambola

Second-wave Nora

Woman as decorative object

Painted ladies

Afterword

Notes

Comic art adaptations based on Scandinavian source texts

Illustrations

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789189361133

918936113X

9789189361140

9189361148

OCLC:

1399168504