Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot6/23/2023 Graphic Novels as Self-Conscious Contemplative Metatexts: Redefining Comics and Participating in Theoretical Discourse. San Antonio: Antarctic Press.Įvangelia, Moula. London: Hutchinson & Co, 1934.Įspinosa, Rod. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. This chapter also discusses the ways in which these graphic novels self-referentially engage with the aesthetics of the graphic novel form and in the case of Alice in Sunderland incorporate the artist as an autobiographical character.īolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Journal of Literature and Art Studies 8 (2): 181–189, 2018) argument that the graphic novel works on the level of self-conscious contemplative metatext, it interrogates the ways in which these paraliterary narratives draw on the original Alice stories, the wider canon of children’s fantasy literature, the lives of Lewis Carroll and the Liddle family, and the socio-historical milieu in which Wonderland is a significant cultural text. Applying Moula Evangelia’s (Graphic Novels as Self-Conscious Contemplative Metatexts: Redefining Comics and Participating in Theoretical Discourse. This chapter considers remediations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice texts in Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland (2007), Alan Moore’s Lost Girls (2009), and Bill Willingham’s Jack of Fables (2006–2011).
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