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Coughlan, David. "Paul Auster’s City of Glass: The Graphic Novel." Modern Fiction Studies 52. (2006): 832–54. Added by: joachim (7/20/09, 1:34 AM) Last edited by: joachim (3/14/16, 3:32 AM) |
Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2007.0006 BibTeX citation key: Coughlan2006 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "City of Glass", Adaptation, Karasik. Paul, Literature, Mazzucchelli. David Creators: Coughlan Collection: Modern Fiction Studies |
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In adapting Paul Auster’s postmodern detective story City of Glass as a graphic novel, Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli succeeded in producing a visual translation of an often non-visual text. Focussing on Auster’s text rather than Auster’s story, it is argued, the artists make inventive use of visual metaphors, visual styles, and comic conventions to translate Auste’rs words into pictures. The text’s investigation into, and interrogation of, language is brought to bear on the comic version’s own visual language, and City of Glass: The Graphic Novel emerges as valuable source material for a future poetics of comics.
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