Literature to Comics module (EN31015)

• Level 3
• English - School of Humanities
• Coursework 100%

Description

This module explores the adaptation of literary texts (mainly novels, but also some poems and plays) into comics and graphic novels. It includes:

• Robert Crumb's version of Boswell's London Journal
• Martin Rowson's take on Laurence Stern's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman,and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
• Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) as envisaged by Bill Sienkiewicz
• Oscar Wilde's Salomeby Aubrey Beardsley, and adapted into a comic by David Shenton
• Kidnapped and Jekyll and Hyde(Robert Louis Stevenson),adapted byAlan Grant and Cam Kennedy, and another version adapted by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky
• Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, adapted byDavid Zane Mairowitz and Catherine Anyango
• Short stories by Kafka adapted by Peter Kuper, and The Trial, adapted by Chantal Montellier and David Zane Mairowitz
• Various stories by H.P. Lovecraft, adapted by Alan Moore
• City of Glassby Paul Auster, adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli

The newly published series The Graphic CanonVol. 1 - 3 is also studied.

Pre-requisites

Normally, successful completion of entry requirements for the third year of the MA English programme

Convenor

Dr Golnar Nabizadeh

Assessment

This module is assessed as follows:

• Close Analysis Essay (25%)
• Presentation (25%)
• Research Essay (50%)

Reading

Secondary Texts

• Berninger, M., Ecke, J., and Haberkorn, G. (eds), (2010) Comics as a Nexus of Cultures: Essays on the Interplay of Media, Disciplines and International Perspectives
• Groensteen, T. (1999), The System of Comics
• Hatfield, C. (2005), Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature
• Heer, J. & Worchester, K. (eds) (2008), A Comics Studies Reader

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