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Adaptation in the German-Speaking Comic Book Genre: Perspectives on the Austrian Comic Book Author Nicolas Mahler

Frist, Clayton Robert
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1433260874

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2015, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, German.
This thesis’s aim is to introduce the contemporary Austrian comic book author Nicolas Mahler and his work to an English-speaking readership. A background of the German comic book genre prefaces a discussion about Nicolas Mahler and his professional career. The central section of this study will be devoted to a close analysis of two of Nicolas Mahler’s works, Der Weltverbesserer (2014) and Franz Kafkas nonstop Lachmaschine (2014). For my analysis of these works, I explore Linda Hutcheon’s theory of adaptation, Roland Barthes’s narratology and Brian McFarlane’s notion of enunciation. These theories aid in unpacking Nicolas Mahler’s style and examining how he adapts works of German literary classics into the comic book genre. My thesis places Nicolas Mahler and his comic books within the tradition of the German literary context as well as within the study of contemporary German-language comic books.
Christina Guenther, Dr. (Advisor)
Edgar Landgraf, Dr. (Committee Member)
77 p.
Germanic Literature
German Comic Book; Nicolas Mahler, Der Weltverbesserer; Franz Kafka nonstop Lachmaschine; Austrian Comic Book; Contemporary German Literature; Contemporary Austrian Literature; Thomas Bernhard; Franz Kafka

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  • Frist, C. R. (2015). Adaptation in the German-Speaking Comic Book Genre: Perspectives on the Austrian Comic Book Author Nicolas Mahler [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1433260874

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Frist, Clayton. Adaptation in the German-Speaking Comic Book Genre: Perspectives on the Austrian Comic Book Author Nicolas Mahler. 2015. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1433260874.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Frist, Clayton. "Adaptation in the German-Speaking Comic Book Genre: Perspectives on the Austrian Comic Book Author Nicolas Mahler." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1433260874

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