Afterlives, Scandinavian Classics as Comic Art Adaptation, Scandinavian Classics as Comic Art Adaptation

Author

Storskog; Camilla Carita

Year

2023

Publisher

Kriterium

Type

BOOK

Description

Most reflections on what characterises a ‘classic’ work of art contain a paradox. Contributions to the discussion over the last fifty years have continued to stress the controversy in attempts to award classic status to literary works by a readership torn between retromania and a hunger for novelty, reluctant to accept arbiters of taste, but at the same time avid consumers of ratings and rankings.¹¹ According to Anders Olsson, the concept of a ‘classic’ is, indeed, encapsulated in a hierarchy of contradictions.¹² Not only do we speak of major classics and minor classics, great classics and modern classics, but, in...