Comics and Novelization: A Literary History of Bandes Dessinées

By Beno�t Glaude

This book opens a novel perspective on comics and literature interactions. It claims that the two artistic media have always maintained a mutual emulation, for as long as they have coexisted in media culture. To demonstrate this, the present research does not focus on literary adaptations in comics form but rather on a literary corpus that remains virtually unexplored: comics-related novels. The purpose of this volume is to inventory French comics-related novels and to study them. Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of bande dessin e through its novels, from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Although the comic strip - including the aptly named "graphic novel" - has sometimes been regarded as the disciple of an unsurpassable literary model, do these under-studied adaptations in novel form not rather indicate a mutual relationship, or even an emulation, between the two media?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032436646
• ISBN13: 9781032436647
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"