Rewriting Humour in Comic Books
Cultural Transfer and Translation of Aristophanic Adaptations
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Proposes a unique, language-led research agenda for cultural flows Examines the transferral of humour across cultures and time Foregrounds the emerging study of comic books and graphic novels Challenges textual norms and the hierarchy of cultural flows
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Dimitris Asimakoulas
Themen in »Rewriting Humour in Comic Books«
Language transfer Publishers Translators Humour Studies Drawing style Verbal-visual combinations Framing Mise-en-scène Books as material objects translation studies discourse analysis english corpus linguistics