The expert contributors to this book demonstrate how the graphic novel brings a new way of seeing and understanding the classics, including the writings of Homer, Poe, Flaubert, Conrad and Kafka, among many others. High school and college students and teachers will find these essays exciting, informative, and useful.

Table of Contents

Preface  1
Introduction  3
Here There Be Monsters (and Heroes): Homer’s Odyssey and the Graphic Novel—Paul D. Streufert  19
Hwaet If? Beowulf in Comics—Jason Tondro  33
Killing Desdemona: Staging Sexual Violence in Othello Graphic Novels—J. Caitlin Finlayson  46
Illustrating the Uncertainty Within: Recent Comics Adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe—Derek Parker Royal  60
The Good, the Bad and the Parodic in Graphic Adaptation—Eric S. Rabkin  82
In Search of the White Whale: Adaptations of Moby-Dick—Dirk Vanderbeke  96
“I don’t see what good a book is without pictures or conversations”: Imaginary Worlds and Intertextuality in Alice in Wonderland and Alice in Sunderland—Matthew J.A. Green  110
“Does That Change Anything?” (Post)Feminist Implications of Gemma Bovery—Eric L. Berlatsky  127
Drawing Style, Genre and the Destabilization of Register in a Graphic Adaptation of Trollope’s 1878 Novel John Caldigate—David Skilton and Simon Grennan  147
The Masks of Dracula: In Search of the Authentic Performative Vampire in Three Graphic Novel Adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula—Ana G. Gal  161
The Picture and Dorian Gray: Interpretive Pluralism in Graphic Adaptations of Wilde’s Novel—Esther Bendit Saltzman  177
Illustrating the Abyss: An Interview with Catherine Anyango on Heart of Darkness —Christine Ferguson  194
Visualizing the Unrepresentable: Graphic Novel Adaptations of Kafka’s Metamorphosis—Martha Kuhlman  205
An Unusual Adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby—Stephen E. Tabachnick  221
Not Telling, but Retelling: From Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style to Matt Madden’s 99 Ways to Tell a Story and Back—Jan Baetens  235
Illustrated Man: Ray Bradbury, Comics and the Authorized Graphic Novels—Darren ­Harris-Fain  249
Bibliography  263
About the Contributors  267
Index  271