The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling: A Graphical Approach to the Journey to the West in Korea (East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture, 14)

In this book, Barbara Wall analyses sixty Korean variations of The Journey to the West as dynamic texts, arguing that their artists are participants in the ongoing creating of the story world known as The Journey , in the process challenging typical assumptions about the classics of world literature. Contents Acknowledgements Tables Images Graphs 60 Variations of The Journey A Note to the Reader Introduction Chapter 1 Branding The Journey: Fabricated Authenticity of Translations Chapter 2 Valuing The Journey: Fragmentary Wholeness of Adaptations Chapter 3 Marking The Journey: Distant Closeness of Adaptations Chapter 4 Distilling The Journey: Shallow Depth of Intertexts Chapter 5 Initializing The Journey: Abbreviated Complexity of Intertexts Chapter 6 Epilogue: Continuing The Journey in a Graphical Sandbox References Index