Comparative Literature

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  • From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative

    From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative

    $270.00

    Die Reihe Narratologia publiziert innovative Monographien und Sammelbände zur modernen Erzähltheorie und zu ihrer fachgeschichtlichen Rekonstruktion aus allen philologischen Disziplinen. Sie stellt das erste narratologische Forum dieser Art in Deutschland dar. Neben literarischen Texten stehen u. a. auch das Alltagserzählen, Wort-Bild-Texte, Erzählen im Film und in den neuen Medien sowie das Erzählen in Historiographie, Ethnologie,…

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  • Adapting the Canon: Mediation, Visualization, Interpretation

    Adapting the Canon: Mediation, Visualization, Interpretation

    $110.00

    Adapting the Canon brings together some of the most recent and exciting research in the growing field of adaptation studies, charting the passage of canonical texts across time, cultures and different media. Spanning several Humanities disciplines, the essays in this volume explore key questions about what adaptation means for the canonical work, focusing on texts…

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  • Gotham City Living: The Social Dynamics in the Batman Comics and Media

    Gotham City Living: The Social Dynamics in the Batman Comics and Media

    $110.00

    Framing Gotham City as a microcosm of a modern-day metropolis, Gotham City Living posits this fictional setting as a hyper-aware archetype, demonstrative of the social, political and cultural tensions felt throughout urban America. Looking at the comics, graphic novels, films and television shows that form the Batman universe, this book demonstrates how the various creators…

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  • A Book of Burlesques

    A Book of Burlesques

    $17.95

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the “public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no…

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  • A Book of Burlesques

    A Book of Burlesques

    $30.95

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the “public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no…

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  • Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography

    Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography

    $130.00

    The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get a distinctly different interpretation of past events….

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  • War Comics: A Postcolonial Perspective

    War Comics: A Postcolonial Perspective

    $60.99

    This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries and online, interactive documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. In doing so it explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem of representing trauma when language seems inadequate to describe our experiences and how the visual narrative form…

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