Rewriting Humour in Comic Books

Download or read book Rewriting Humour in Comic Books written by Dimitris Asimakoulas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.