Rewriting Humour In Comic Books

Author : Dimitris Asimakoulas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030195274

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Rewriting Humour in Comic Books by Dimitris Asimakoulas Pdf

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.

Author : Almut Fries,Dimitrios Kanellakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110645224

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Ancient Greek Comedy by Almut Fries,Dimitrios Kanellakis Pdf

This volume, in honour of Angus M. Bowie, collects seventeen original essays on Greek comedy. Its contributors treat questions of origin, genre and artistic expression, interpret individual plays from different angles (literary, historical, performative) and cover aspects of reception from antiquity to the 20th century. Topics that have not received much attention so far, such as the prehistory of Doric comedy or music in Old Comedy, receive a prominent place. The essays are arranged in three sections: (1) Genre, (2) Texts and Contexts, (3) Reception. Within each section the chapters are as far as possible arranged in chronological order, according to historical time or to the (putative) dates of the plays under discussion. Thus readers will be able to construe their own diachronic and thematic connections, for example between the portrayal of stock characters in early Doric farce and developed Attic New Comedy or between different forms of comic reception in the fourth century BC. The book is intended for professional scholars, graduate and undergraduate students. Its wide range of subjects and approaches will appeal not only to those working on Greek comedy, but to anyone interested in Greek drama and its afterlife.

Author : Paschalis Nikolaou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009178662

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Creative Classical Translation by Paschalis Nikolaou Pdf

This Element surveys transmissions of ancient Greek and Latin texts into anglophone literatures. Creativity through translation is a defining feature. It explores numerous textual manifestations and reasons for invention, along with integrations of thinking on classical translation over the centuries, helping shape present-day translation studies.

Author : Melvin Helitzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0898795109

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Comedy Writing Secrets by Melvin Helitzer Pdf

A comprehensive guide to writing, selling and performing all types of comedy. Includes comments, advice, gags and routines from top comics.

Author : Nancy Pedri
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781496838087

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A Concise Dictionary of Comics by Nancy Pedri Pdf

Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship. A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides clear and informative definitions for each term. It includes twenty-five witty illustrations and pairs most defined terms with references to books, articles, book chapters, and other relevant critical sources. All references are dated and listed in an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of comics scholarship. Each term is also categorized according to type in an index of thematic groupings. This organization serves as a pedagogical aid for teachers and students learning about a specific facet of comics studies and as a research tool for scholars who are unfamiliar with a particular term but know what category it falls into. These features make A Concise Dictionary of Comics especially useful for critics, students, teachers, and researchers, and a vital reference to anyone else who wants to learn more about comics.

Author : John Vorhaus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1879505215

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The Comic Toolbox by John Vorhaus Pdf

A straightforward, often humorous workbook approach to comedy writing as creative problem-solving. In it, veteran Hollywood comedy writer John Vorhaus offers his tools of the trade to writers, comics, and anyone else who wants to be funny. Among these indispensable tools are Clash of Context, Tension and Release, The Law of Comic Opposites, The Wildly Inappropriate Response, and The Myth of the Last Great Idea. Readers will learn that comedy = truth and pain (the essence of the comic situation), that fear is the biggest roadblock to comedy (kill the ferocious editor within and rich, useful comic ideas will flow), and much more.

Author : Loukia Kostopoulou,Vasiliki Misiou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003826736

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Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation by Loukia Kostopoulou,Vasiliki Misiou Pdf

This innovative collection spotlights the role of media crossovers in humour translation and how the latter is conveyed through new means of communication. The volume offers an in-depth exploration of the entanglements of film, theatre, literature, TV, the Internet, etc., within the framework of transmediality and their influence on the practice of translating humour. Chapters focus on the complex web of interrelationships shaped by and shaping the process(es) of transformation and adaptation that take place across media and across languages and cultures. Situating translation practices and innovations within an interdisciplinary context, the volume underscores the hybrid nature and complex semiotics of humour and the plurality of possibilities for new insights that contemporary approaches offer driven by technological advancements in the industry. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of Translation Studies, Humour Studies, Audiovisual Translation, Media Studies, and Adaptation Studies.

Author : Mike Sacks
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101613276

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Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, George Saunders, Bill Hader, Patton Oswalt, and many more take us deep inside the mysterious world of comedy in this fascinating, laugh-out-loud-funny book. Packed with behind-the-scenes stories—from a day in the writers’ room at The Onion to why a sketch does or doesn’t make it onto Saturday Night Live to how the BBC nearly erased the entire first season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus—Poking a Dead Frog is a must-read for comedy buffs, writers and pop culture junkies alike.

Author : Kate Beaton
Publisher : Random House
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781473585270

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Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton Pdf

Since Kate Beaton appeared on the comics scene in 2007 her cartoons have become fan favourites and gathered an enormous following, appearing in the New Yorker, Harper and the LA Times, to name but a few. Her website, Hark! A Vagrant, receives an average of 1.2 million hits a month, 500 thousand of them unique. Why? Because she's not just making silly jokes. She's making jokes about everything we learned in school, and more. Praised for their expression, intelligence and comic timing, her cartoons are best known for their wonderfully light touch on historical and literary topics. The jokes are a knowing look at history through a very modern perspective, written for every reader, and are a crusade against anyone with the idea that history is boring. It's pretty hard to argue with that when you're laughing your head off at a comic about Thucydides. They also cover whatever's on her mind that week - be it the perils of city living or the pop-cultural infiltration of Sex and the City, featuring an array of characters, from a mischievous pony, to reinvented superheroes, to a surly teen duo who could be the anti-Hardy-Boys. Perceptive, sharp and wonderfully irreverent, Hark! A Vagrant is as informative as it is hilarious, and a comic collection to treasure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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APAIS 1991: Australian public affairs information service by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Kachuba
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : UCSC:32106018771227

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How to Write Funny by John Kachuba Pdf

A discussion of the basics and genres of the comic point of view includes essays and interviews with such authors as Dave Barry, Sherman Alexie, and Melissa Bank.

Author : Andrew Stott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134424108

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Comedy by Andrew Stott Pdf

Rather than attempting to produce a totalising definition of 'the comic', this volume focuses on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory.

Author : Kai Mikkonen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781315410128

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The Narratology of Comic Art by Kai Mikkonen Pdf

By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition. This involves not just the exploration of those properties in comics that can be meaningfully investigated with existing narrative theory, but an interpretive study of the potential in narratological concepts and analytical procedures that has hitherto been overlooked. This research monograph is, then, not an application of narratology in the medium and art of comics, but a revision of narratological concepts and approaches through the study of narrative comics. Thus, while narratology is brought to bear on comics, equally comics are brought to bear on narratology.

Author : Cara Delevingne,Ricky Gervais,Jane Goodall,Scott Snyder,Taika Waititi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780744058512

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The Most Important Comic Book on Earth by Cara Delevingne,Ricky Gervais,Jane Goodall,Scott Snyder,Taika Waititi Pdf

120 inspiring visual stories on environmentalism from key figures, charities, activists, and artists. The Most Important Comic Book On Earth is a global collaboration for planetary change, bringing together a diverse team of 300 leading environmentalists, artists, authors, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and more to present over 120 stories to save the world. Whether it’s inspirational tales from celebrity names such as Cara Delevingne and Andy Serkis, hilarious webcomics from War and Peas and Ricky Gervais, artworks by leading illustrators David Mack and Tula Lotay, calls to action from activists George Monbiot and Jane Goodall, or powerful stories by Brian Azzarello and Amy Chu, each of the comics in this anthology will support projects and organizations fighting to save the planet and Rewrite Extinction.

Author : Alison Macor
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292759459

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Rewrite Man by Alison Macor Pdf

From Hallingdal to Houston -- Hollywood on the Colorado -- Breaking away -- Highway to the danger zone -- Hollywood gothic -- One hit after another -- Batmania -- The man Hollywood trusts -- Conclusion