In Afterlives, the literary scholar Camilla Storskog investigates how classics with Scandinavian orgin have been reinterpreted as comics. She sets out how literary works, plays, and films have crossed and recrossed the boundaries of language and media, speaking to new times and new contexts. Comic art adaptations have long been neglected by academics, so in this book the author considers them as unique visual media with their own aesthetic, technical, and narrative qualities.

About the Author
Camilla Storskog is an Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Milan, Italy where she teaches Scandinavian literature. In 2023, she was employed at UC Berkeley's Scandinavian Department where she taught courses on comic art adaptations and Scandinavian travel literature. She has focused on interdisciplinary research with special attention to crossovers between literature and the visual arts. Her first book-length study, Literary Impressionisms, focused on identifying and exploring resonances of impressionism in a field - Swedish and Finland-Swedish literature - hitherto overlooked in the critical debate on literary impressionism. Her second book is dedicated to comic art adaptations of Scandinavian classics. It examines the ways in which works by H.C. Andersen, Ingmar Bergman, Karen Blixen, Karin Boye, Henrik Ibsen, Jon Fosse, and Zacharias Topelius have travelled across media, time, place, culture, and language, with emphasis on the aesthetics, techniques, and narrative machinery of storytelling in the medium of comics.


Book Information
ISBN 9789189361126
Author Camilla Storskog
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Nordic Academic Press
Publisher Nordic Academic Press