Stripping H.C. Andersen. Peter Madsen’s Historien om en mor (or, what a graphic novel adaptation can do that its literary source cannot)

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-318
Author(s):  
Camilla Storskog
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Page Layout ◽  
Literary Source ◽  
Bande Dessinee ◽  
The Media ◽  
Depth And Complexity ◽  
Work Done

Abstract This article addresses the transposition of H.C. Andersen’s literary production to comics and graphic novels; a vast, though little explored, field of research. It furnishes a brief overview of the work done by comic art creators in approaching the adaptation of Andersen, and proceeds to analyse Historien om en mor, Peter Madsen’s 2004 graphic novel adaptation of Andersen’s Historien om en Moder from 1848. As Madsen’s version is predominantly visual, employing images and sequences rather than words in the re-telling of the fairy tale, the investigation is presented as a semiotic analysis drawing on the tools provided by Thierry Groensteen’s The System of Comics (2007; ed. orig. Système de la bande dessinée, 1999). Categories scrutinised as meaning makers include gridding, braiding, page layout, and the handling of the dimension of time, with the ultimate aim of describing how the media affordances of comics, in the hands of a true craftsman, add depth and complexity to the re-narration of Andersen’s original.

STUDENTS’ ACCEPTANCE TO USING GRAPHIC NOVELS IN LEARNING LITERATURE (L2): A MALAYSIAN CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Abu Yazid Abu Bakar ◽  
Dayang Nurfaezah Abang Ahmad ◽  
Melor Md Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Esl Teachers ◽  
English As Second Language ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Research has shown that using graphic novels in the classroom is one of useful approaches to promote the understanding of learners especially for lengthy and difficult literature texts. This study reports the extent of graphic novel in facilitating students’ understanding of literature and the students’ perceptions towards using graphic novel in learning literature (L2) as compared to other genre of texts. This is a mixed method study which employs quantitative and qualitative methods to obtain data. The findings indicate that most students found that graphic novel helped them to enrich their vocabularies and understand the text better. The findings also reveal that students were attracted to the illustrations in the literature text in which this helps to boost their motivation to learn literature in the classroom. The findings provide useful insights for English as Second Language (ESL) teachers in incorporating and expanding the literature learning through graphic novels in the future. The findings also imply the need of ESL teachers to use graphic novels effectively in facilitating their teaching and learning of literature in L2 classrooms particularly to suit the 21<sup>st</sup> century teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Tinjauan Anatomi Layout Halaman Republika Epaper

Humaniora ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 593
Author(s):  
Suprayitno Suprayitno
Keyword(s):  
High Growth ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Page Layout ◽  
Digital Version ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Output Only ◽  
Digital Newspaper

Communities are increasingly familiar with Internet technology became one of the reasons for the rapid growth of digital newspaper in Indonesia. The ability of the media presents news in brief, fast, accessible and inexpensive form the basis of high growth of consumer interest in digital newspaper / electronic. Technological developments, triggering changes to the newspaper that had shaped the physical print later developed in digital form. In principle, newspaper print and digital newspapers contain messages or the same news, namely providing information to readers about the actual and weighted, as well as other light information that is entertainment. Review the anatomy of the digital newspaper layout is a study to trace and explore what and how the anatomy of a newspaper page layout, at least to provide information and understanding of the anatomy of the layouts in outline. Process layout in the digital version is no different from print media, which distinguishes its output only. In the process to any design layout of a medium, a designer is still expected to possess and master the basic principles such as layout hierarchy, emphasis, balance, and unity. 

scholarly journals graphic novel as a popular genre of book publishing in the context of modern design

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Oliinyk
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Synthetic Methods ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Meta Level

The relevance of the research is due both to the lack of research that would comprehend a graphic novel as an independent phenomenon and subject of art history, the youth of the genre, and its relative non-proliferation in the Ukrainian literary space. The vast majority of Russian publications touch on the analysis of specific graphic novels in the context of modern literary studies, which focuses on the narrative and ideological components of individual works without taking into account the role of the visual component for the genre as a whole. Theoretical analysis and practical application of new synthetic methods and means of transmitting visual socio-cultural codes are of value not only in the context of design but also for other multimodal-oriented industries. The structural approach is the main approach to the study of this problem, which uses the methods of linguistics and semiotics, bringing them to the meta-level regarding design, as well as discursive analysis, in the subject field of which there is a question of the cultural and historical conditionality of a graphic novel as a genre and the nature of its perception. 

scholarly journals The specifics of the creative representation of classical and modern texts in the direction of A. Prikhodko

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Ivashchenko ◽  
Viktoriya Strelchuk
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Theatrical Space ◽  
Literary Source ◽  
Factors Of Influence ◽  
Structural Methods ◽  
Stage Composition

The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the interpretive theater direction of A. Prikhodka in the context of experiments with the representation of classical and modern texts. Methodology. Comparative and structural methods have been applied in order to reveal the versatility of the director's intention; the method of hermeneutic and the semiotic method, which contributed to the opportunity to explore the specifics of the director's representation; the hermeneutic method is dominant in the process of evaluating performances since it contributes to the perception of the production as an artistic whole, provided that the functionality of its individual components is understood; the method of semiotic analysis of postmodern stage works, etc. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that the specificity of the representation of classical and modern texts in the work of theatrical director A. Prikhodka is considered in the context of the trends of this process in the modern theatrical space on the basis of comprehensive art history, theater, and cultural analysis. The theoretical views of A. Prikhodka are analyzed, the factors of influence on the production process and its specifics are revealed; an attempt is made to consider the phenomenon of the representation of literary texts from the perspective of postmodern trends in the development of modern Ukrainian theater. Conclusions. The work of A. Prikhodka is characterized by the reworking of the literary source of the production at the text level, including, among other things, a significant substantive reworking - highlighting plot lines, building plot lines, a successive reworking of prose characters into dramatic ones, the emergence of new, non-fictional characters, etc. - turning into a unique a literary script for the author's embodiment of a stage composition with the help of specific means of director's expressiveness of postmodern, realistic and avant-garde theater. The study revealed that the creative representations of classical and modern tests by A. Prikhodka reveal the hidden potential of the literary source, giving it a new philosophical and worldview understanding. The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the interpretive theater direction of A. Prikhodka in the context of experiments with the representation of classical and modern texts. Methodology. Comparative and structural methods have been applied in order to reveal the versatility of the director's intention; the method of hermeneutic and the semiotic method, which contributed to the opportunity to explore the specifics of the director's representation; the hermeneutic method is dominant in the process of evaluating performances since it contributes to the perception of the production as an artistic whole, provided that the functionality of its individual components is understood; the method of semiotic analysis of postmodern stage works, etc. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that the specificity of the representation of classical and modern texts in the work of theatrical director A. Prikhodka is considered in the context of the trends of this process in the modern theatrical space on the basis of comprehensive art history, theater, and cultural analysis. The theoretical views of A. Prikhodka are analyzed, the factors of influence on the production process and its specifics are revealed; an attempt is made to consider the phenomenon of the representation of literary texts from the perspective of postmodern trends in the development of modern Ukrainian theater. Conclusions. The work of A. Prikhodka is characterized by the reworking of the literary source of the production at the text level, including, among other things, a significant substantive reworking - highlighting plot lines, building plot lines, a successive reworking of prose characters into dramatic ones, the emergence of new, non-fictional characters, etc. - turning into a unique a literary script for the author's embodiment of a stage composition with the help of specific means of director's expressiveness of postmodern, realistic and avant-garde theater. The study revealed that the creative representations of classical and modern tests by A. Prikhodka reveal the hidden potential of the literary source, giving it a new philosophical and worldview understanding.

scholarly journals Vigiando os vigilantes: uma abordagem sobre o Panoptismo a partir de Watchmen

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Mateus De Oliveira Fornasier ◽  
Thiago Dos Santos Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Graphic Novel

Este artigo objetiva apresentar uma discussão filosófica a partir da obra Watchmen, abordando assuntos como o panoptismo e o utilitarismo (Bentham), discutindo a supervigilância na atualidade. O problema que norteia a elaboração do trabalho é: é possível discutir sobre questões filosóficas, morais e políticas a partir da mídia das graphic novels? Como hipótese, apresentou-se que sim, dado o alto teor filosófico apresentado em Watchmen, inspirado na crítica literária das ideias de panoptismo e utilitarismo. O texto tem, como objetivos específicos: 1) Introdução e comentários críticos acerca da graphic novel Watchmen; 2) explicação do panoptismo, com ênfase na supervigilância presente na pós-modernidade; e 3) estabelecimento de um paralelo entre a obra Watchmen e o panoptismo. Sua metodologia é dialética, estabelecendo-se uma conversação interdisciplinar entre a obra Watchmen e o panoptismo.Palavras-Chave: Panoptismo. Watchmen. Vigilância.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Graphic Novels, 2nd ed.

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Karl G. Siewert
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Guiding Principles

Taking Ranganathan’s five laws as guiding principles, this new edition of a 2010 work addresses issues of how to effectively discuss and recommend materials in the graphic novel format with readers of all types. It addresses head-on the misconception that graphic works are only for teens and poorly socialized adults and presents a holistic view of the format and the particular challenges that it presents for library workers advising readers.

Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
Fransiska Louwagie ◽  
Benoît Crucifix
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Bande Dessinee ◽  
The Holocaust

Ewa Stańczyk, ed., Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020). 142 pp. ISBN: 9780367585921 (£29.59)Vittorio Frigerio, Bande dessinée et littérature: Intersections, fascinations, divergences (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2018). 96 pp. ISBN: 9788822902573 (€10.00)

Weaving New Dreams From Old Cloth

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Anna Katrina Gutierrez
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Schema Theories

This chapter discusses the significance of Gaiman's creative disruptions of scripts and schemas in two of his visual retellings for young adults: The Sleeper and the Spindle (2014) and the graphic novel The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (1999). By weaving the old, well-worn cloth of fairy tale narrative scripts together with new schematics, Gaiman and his collaborators present sometimes radical ideologies clothed in the comfortable garb of rehearsed, longstanding traditions. As much as this action masks the changing cultural attitudes represented by the "new cloth," Gaiman's weavings also reveal to careful readers how narratives become ubiquitous and achieve metanarrativity. To understand how our minds interpret scripts, schemas, and metanarratives, this chapter will bring to bear conceptual blending and schema theories on my examination of the verbal and visual interplay of source texts and Gaiman retellings

Richard McGuire’s Here as an Autography of Place

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Chaney
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
As If

This book concludes with an analysis of Richard McGuire's graphic novel Here to show how profoundly the architecture of place pervades our reading and seeing. It argues that, like many so-called graphic novels, Here makes use of temporality as if it were the only logic able to make sense of place, with its non-human ontic timelessness. It also considers Here to be ideal for identifying how autobiography operates when it is not a generic paradigm but a mode, precisely because the text is neither künstlerroman nor autography in the traditional sense. There are no recognizable self-portraiture of the artist hard at work, but Here still conjures the work behind the work and the creator who both carries out and covers over that labor. The fact that Here is not a self-announced autobiography helps to conceal the apprenticeship strategies in reading and viewing that structure it.

Bande dessinée

2020 ◽  
pp. 403-410
Author(s):  
Mark McKinney
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novel ◽  
French Colonialism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Bande Dessinee

Some contemporary French cartoonists have published comics that either themselves serve as post-colonial lieux de mémoire in place of disappeared colonial people, places, events or objects, or that otherwise recall colonial lieux de mémoire. The graphic novel Cannibale (2009), adapted by Emmanuel Reuzé from Didier Daeninckx's eponymous prose novel (1998), returns to the International Colonial Exhibition in Paris, which has become a post-colonial lieu de mémoire. The 1931 event, staged at the zenith of French imperial rule, and overseen by Maréchal Lyautey, was grandiose in conception, size and scope, and racist too, in fact. Both versions of Cannibale feature a Kanak narrator sent to perform as a New Caledonian cannibal in the Parisian exhibition. This essay analyzes how Reuzé uses cartooning techniques such as visual symbolism, subjective viewpoints, visual and verbal narration, inset images, and visual rhymes to critique French colonialism and to commemorate its victims.

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