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Moula, Evangelia. "Comics and Literature in a Multivalent and Multidimensional Interplay: Debunking Cultural Stereotypes and Redefining Literariness." Advances in Social Sciences Research. Sydney: Australia International Cultural and Educational Institute, 2013. 141–56. Added by: joachim (07/12/2025, 17:13) Last edited by: joachim (07/12/2025, 19:52) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: Moula2013 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Adaptation, Intertextuality, Literature Creators: Moula Publisher: Australia International Cultural and Educational Institute (Sydney) Collection: Advances in Social Sciences Research |
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Comics have for long been depreciated as low and easily digested readings, a simple means of light entertainment, appropriate for young and culturally illiterate people. This was due to a major misunderstanding, emanating from the confusion of the medium with its genres. After so many years of critical scrutiny and abundant comic books production this perception has changed radically. There has been a long theoretical discussion about comics' literariness and their relation with literature in order to qualify and justify their existence. In this paper we are not going to deal with or challenge comics' literariness, which we take for granted, under certain conditions—of course—which should be fulfilled in literature too. Neither shall we endorse the opinion that comics are the visual equivalent of prose narrative, because such a viewpoint would mean that we should judge comics by literature's established criteria. Our aim is to show the multiple intriguing ways through which comics communicate with literature, coming up to blurring the genres' differences and even create hybrid literary products. Taking as a starting point the adaptations of literary texts into comics, from transpositions to analogies, we will investigate various inventive modes that implicate literature with comics sometimes into an inextricable totality. Allusions, quotations, dialogic relations between comics' and literary heroes or writers, daring combinations of comic books' and literary specific modes, all kinds of narrative techniques and literary theories practiced in comics, artistic styles implying certain writers' mood, literature's functionality as a narrative device in comic scenarios, writers and narrators within comic books' plot and many other relations raise comics up to a self-standing status, postulating its unique and tantamount place in the field of cultural production.
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