Resultaten (13)
Children’s Literature in Translation
Texts and Contexts
2020 || Paperback || Jan Van Coillie e.a. || Leuven University Press
For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated: what contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the ...
Graphic Embodiments
Perspectives on Health and Embodiment in Graphic Narratives
2021 || Paperback || Lisa DeTora e.a. || Leuven University Press
Comics and other graphic narratives powerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express in language. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore the unique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well as the relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works from illustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions, we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everyday expe...
Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels French Cartoon Art in the 1960s and 1970s
2017 || Paperback || Wendy Michallat || Leuven University Press
Pilote's unique position in a new and fast developing youth press market.
The French comic magazine Pilote hebdomadaire arrived in a weakening comics market in 1959 largely dominated by syndicated translations of American comics and comics inspired by a Catholic ethos. It tailored its content and tone to an older adolescent reader far removed from that of France's infant comic. Pilote's profile set it on a turbulent course subject to the vicissitudes and fickleness of fashion which situated i...
Visualising Small Traumas
Contemporary Portuguese Comics at the Intersection of Everyday Trauma
2022 || Paperback || Pedro Moura || Leuven University Press
Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal’s borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned wha...
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
Comics Picturing Girlhood
2022 || Paperback || Dona Pursall e.a. || Leuven University Press
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comic studies, children’s comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional historical, narratological and aesthetic approaches to studying girlhood in comics with practice-...
Character Constellations
Representations of Social Groups in Present-Day Dutch Literary Fiction
2021 || Paperback || Roel Smeets || Leuven University Press
Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, Character Constellations presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of characters in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and other identity categories. Incorporating the tools of network analysis, each chapter highlights an aspect of fictional social networks t...
Urban Culture and the Modern City
Hungarian Case Studies
2024 || Paperback || Ágnes Györke e.a. || Leuven University Press
When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European cities is striking. Cities such as Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and Trieste, where such notable figures as Freud, Ferenczi, Kafka, and Joyce lived and worked, are rarely studied in a translocal framework, as if Central and Eastern Europe were still a blind spot of European modernity. This volume expands the scope of literary urban studies by focusing on Budapest and Hungarian small towns, offering in-depth an...
European Literatures of Military Occupation
Shared Experience, Shifting Boundaries, and Aesthetic Affections
2024 || Paperback || Matthias Buschmeier e.a. || Leuven University Press
What does it mean to live under occupation? How does it shape the culture and identities of European nations? How does it affect the way we write and read literature? These are fundamental questions that set the stage for an in-depth exploration. Focusing on the literary works of writers from various European countries that were occupied by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Allies during and after World War II, the contributions in this edited volume seek to unravel the complex interplay ...
Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels What Happens When Nothing Happens
boredom and everyday life in contemporary comics
2016 || Paperback || Greice Schneider || Leuven University Press
Boredom and melancholy in the experience of reading.
Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens. Present-day graphic accounts are inhabited by melancholic characters whining about the lack of meaning in life. This book examines this intriguing transition and brings a historical, aesthetical and narratological approach to comics in which boredom is not only a topic, but also awakens a deliberate...
Personality Matters
The Translator’s Personality in the Process of Self-Revision
2020 || Paperback || Olha Lehka-Paul || Leuven University Press
The analysis of translated texts and investigations into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the process of translation have been at the core of translation studies so far. Yet Personality Matters ventures into the previously uncharted territories by bringing the translator’s inherent psychological and cognitive features into the limelight. Combining psychology and translation studies, this monograph looks into the role of the translator’s psychological features in self-revision, the mai...