Rewriting Humour in Comic Books - Cultural Transfer and Translation of Aristophanic Adaptations

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. 

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Rewriting.- Chapter 3: Transition to comic book text. A different mode of engagement.- Chapter 4: Towards a poetics of humour.- Chapter 5: Repeated logic offenders: Comic Characters.- Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks.

About the author

Dimitris Asimakoulas is a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. His research focuses on humour, minority identities in literature and film, and translation history. 

Product details

• Authors: Dimitris Asimakoulas
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2019
• EAN: 9783030195267
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3019526-7
• No. of pages: 189
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 212 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Illustrations: XIX, 189 p. 77 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Altgriechisch, C, Literature, Translation, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English, Germanische und Skandinavische Sprachen, English Language, Greek, Social Sciences, Translation & interpretation, Language: reference & general, Literature—Translations, Translation Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Gene Transcription, Translation and interpretation, Corpora (Linguistics), Corpus Linguistics, Greek language