What word-only novels have been influenced in form or structure by graphic novels
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What word-only novels have been influenced in form or structure by graphic novels
What word-only novels, if any, have been influenced in their form or structure by graphic novels since the latter became widespread in the 1980s?
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Jodi Picoult’s The Seventh Circle uses a graphic version of Dante’s Inferno as part of the book. One character is doing the adaptation. It made for an interesting audiobook, that’s for sure.
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The Popol Vuh is an alphabetic-only text based off the original pictorial + glyph based Mayan records. This is pre 1980s though.
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Re: What word-only novels have been influenced in form or structure by graphic novels
PAstrychef wrote:Jodi Picoult’s The Seventh Circle uses a graphic version of Dante’s Inferno as part of the book. One character is doing the adaptation. It made for an interesting audiobook, that’s for sure.
I hadn't heard of this work before but I think you mean the Tenth Circle. Sounds like an interesting printed book too. Does the author use techniques for transition, zooming, juxtaposition, etc. taken from the graphic novel form in the text part of the book?
doogly wrote:The Popol Vuh is an alphabetic-only text based off the original pictorial + glyph based Mayan records. This is pre 1980s though.
Just a little bit prior

There seems to be a lot of knowledge on this forum, so I'm thinking perhaps there haven't been any word-only novels yet that show substantial structural influence from the form of the graphic novel.
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doogly wrote:The Popol Vuh is an alphabetic-only text based off the original pictorial + glyph based Mayan records. This is pre 1980s though.
Just a little bit prior

But it is doing exactly the things you are talking about though, which I think is really super neat.
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ruffle wrote:What word-only novels, if any, have been influenced in their form or structure by graphic novels since the latter became widespread in the 1980s?
I'd guess that anything word-only that Warren Ellis has produced must be influenced by graphic novels since that's where he came from, y'know?
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