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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 uni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asimakoulas, Dimitris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
Series:Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
Subjects:
Language Translation
Comparative Literature
Linguistics—methodology
Computational Linguistics
Germanic Languages
Research Methods In Language And Linguistics
Greek
Translating And Interpreting
Greek Language
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table 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

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