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

• Main Author: Asimakoulas, Dimitris (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
• Subjects: Translation and interpretation.; Literature-Translations.; Greek language.; Discourse analysis.; English language.; Corpora (Linguistics).; Translation.; Translation Studies.; Greek.; Discourse Analysis.; English.; Corpus Linguistics.

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...

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.