The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka's The Castle in Graphic Adaptations

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka's The Castle in Graphic Adaptations

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

A medievalist text drawing on Parzival, Franz Kafka’s The Castle is a Bildungsroman set in purgatory (Winkleman, 1972) which has several adaptations into graphic format. However, The Castle presents some of the stickiest challenges for illustrators to depict the titular edifice, which appears in the text through the vocabulary of mood or atmosphere. Embedded in the Muirs’s choice to translate das Schloß as a more medievalist ‘castle’ rather than a ‘chateau,’ as it is Czech (zámek), the effort to make the amorphous concrete on the page causes the medievalist simulacra of the castle to bleed into other visual medievalisms, nudging the text ever closer to an absurdist grail quest. This paper looks at this issue of multimodal translation through the lens of the transcultural borrowing of medievalist simulacra. This borrowing takes place in the conversation between Czech and American illustrators Robert Crumb (1993), Kája Saudek (1967) and Jaromír Švejdík (2013) in their adaptations of the short story over several decades.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka's The Castle in Graphic Adaptations

Popis výsledku anglicky

A medievalist text drawing on Parzival, Franz Kafka’s The Castle is a Bildungsroman set in purgatory (Winkleman, 1972) which has several adaptations into graphic format. However, The Castle presents some of the stickiest challenges for illustrators to depict the titular edifice, which appears in the text through the vocabulary of mood or atmosphere. Embedded in the Muirs’s choice to translate das Schloß as a more medievalist ‘castle’ rather than a ‘chateau,’ as it is Czech (zámek), the effort to make the amorphous concrete on the page causes the medievalist simulacra of the castle to bleed into other visual medievalisms, nudging the text ever closer to an absurdist grail quest. This paper looks at this issue of multimodal translation through the lens of the transcultural borrowing of medievalist simulacra. This borrowing takes place in the conversation between Czech and American illustrators Robert Crumb (1993), Kája Saudek (1967) and Jaromír Švejdík (2013) in their adaptations of the short story over several decades.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Medievalisms in a Global Age

ISBN

978-1-84384-703-8

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

37-51

Počet stran knihy

273

Název nakladatele

Boydell &amp; Brewer

Místo vydání

Cambridge

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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