Novel Forms of Rewriting Aristophanes’ Comedies: Comic Book Adaptations and Their Translations

Defining the Comic Plot: Genre and Storytelling in Aristophanes

Comic Book Violence and Vengeance

This study investigated the effects of reading violent versus nonviolent comic books on vengeful responding to hypothetical scenarios. Results indicated that participants reading violent comic books were the most vengeful. Exposure to violent media may influence the likelihood of seeking revenge by activating or reinforcing an individual’s aggressive network. Comic Book Violence and Vengeance 3...

Toward a Theory of Comic Book Communication

In an October 15, 1986, appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman," Harvey Pekar, writer of the autobiographical comic book American Splendor, expressed the potential of the comic book medium in clear, simple terms: "It’s words and pictures. You can do anything you want with words and pictures" (Witek 154) Comic books are a unique and powerful form of communication. Perhaps long-time comic...

architecture and engineering of nanoscale sculptured thin films and determination of their properties

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on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...