Literary Adaptations into Comic/Graphic Novel Form

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Svenn-Arve Myklebost (Volda University College)
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The adaptation of literary fiction into comics, manga and graphic novels occupies a vast creative field, in the consideration of which one must include the history and development of this form of intermedial, transpositional activity. An article of this size and nature cannot claim to cover the field exhaustively, but will introduce it in a general way and dwell on a small set of cases to exemplify the variety of ways in which graphic sequential art has engaged with works of literary fiction. The present text discusses some theoretical implications of adapting what is essentially a verbal form into the multi-modal, verbal-visual form of graphic sequential art, “comics” or “manga”; it then moves on to outline the history of comic adaptation, through presenting and discussing a…

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Citation: Myklebost, Svenn-Arve. "Literary Adaptations into Comic/Graphic Novel Form". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 May 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19356, accessed 19 March 2024.]

19356 Literary Adaptations into Comic/Graphic Novel Form 2 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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