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Literatura polska w komiksowych planszach
Polish Literature in Comics

Author(s): Wioletta Hajduk-Gawron
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: comics; adaptations into comics; audiovisual/popular culture

Summary/Abstract: Comics as one of the texts of culture becomes a mediating element between cultures. The article attempts to answer the question whether the history of Polish literature presented in a form of a comics can influence the way in which Polish literature is regarded and enlarge its readers’ number that is very limited outside of Poland. The author of the article also attempts to study the presence of Polish literary works (mostly novels) in multiple-panel comics, both in Poland and abroad.

  • Issue Year: 9/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 173-180
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish