Literature (Now) Contains Graphic Language: Adaptation, Visualization and Transmedia Texts.
Literary influence is now visible in the form of a graphic visualization, whether as a graphic novel or, as this essay demonstrates in computer-generated visual data around texts and textual relations. All of these are adaptations of the literary text. I first argue that the 'graphing' of the source...
| Published in: | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 4 - 18 |
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