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Visual Media in Literature: Traditions as well as the uses today

Visual Media in Literature: Traditions as well as the uses today. The academic uses of visual media:. SOURCE MATERIALS Manuscript Illuminations The Beginning of Book Illustrations The connection between changes in literature and visual media Graphic Novels CONTENT ENHANCERS

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Visual Media in Literature: Traditions as well as the uses today

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  1. Visual Media in Literature:Traditions as well as the uses today

  2. The academic uses of visual media: • SOURCE MATERIALS • Manuscript Illuminations • The Beginning of Book Illustrations • The connection between changes in literature and visual media • Graphic Novels • CONTENT ENHANCERS • What can visual media add to novel units and understanding • ASSESSMENTS • Formative Assessments • Summative Assessments

  3. Source Materials How to use visual media as the source material

  4. MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION

  5. History of Manuscripts: The Earliest Dated Codex with Full-Page Illustrations 354 CE The earliest surviving substantive illuminated manuscripts are from the period AD 400 to 600, From the 13th century onward, an increasing number of secular texts were illuminated. Gutenberg Begins Experimentation on Printing 1438 – 1444 The introduction of printing rapidly led to the decline of illumination. Illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced in the early 16th century, but in much smaller numbers, mostly for the very wealthy.

  6. Earliest known illuminated manuscript of Homer A 5th century illuminated manuscript on vellum of the Iliad of Homer are known as the IliasAmbrosiana (Ilia picta). The manuscript is thought to have been produced in Constantinople during the late 5th or early 6th century, specifically between 493 and 508.

  7. 512 CE he oldest surviving copy of PedanusDioscorides's treatise on medical botany and pharmacology, De MateriaMedica, is an illuminated Byzantine manuscript produced about 512 CE.

  8. The Oldest English Translation of Any Portion of the Bible 725 – 750 contains an interlinear gloss in Old English which is the oldest extant English translation of any portion of the Bible.

  9. William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) Blake employed intaglio engraving in his own work, most notably for the illustrations of the Book of Job, completed just before his death. Most critical work has tended to concentrate on Blake's relief etching as a technique because it is the most

  10. The Golden Age of Illustration 1880’s-1920’s The Golden Age of Illustration was a period of unprecedented excellence in book and magazine illustration. It developed from advances in technology permitting accurate and inexpensive reproduction of art, combined with a voracious public demand for new graphic art.

  11. Graphic Novels Common Definition: A novel whose narrative is related through a combination of text and art, often in comic-strip form. Stephen Weiner, author of The 101 Best Graphic Novels: A cousin of comic strips, a graphic novel is a story told in comic book format with a beginning, middle, and end. Graphic novels also include bound books conveying nonfiction information in comic book form.

  12. Academic Benefits of graphic novels • Helps to motivate struggling readers or reluctant readers • They have built in supports for students who struggle with language acquisition • Can be used as a content enhancer in similar ways that movies are used • Can help bridge background knowledge by showing students the visual landscape of the story. • Harnesses student’s natural interests

  13. Maus: A Survivor’s TaleArt Spiegelman Synopsis: Maus: A Survivor's Tale is a biography of the author’s father VladekSpiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The story alternates between Poland before and during after WWII and Spiegelman’s later life in New York City. It is the only graphic novel that has won the Pulitzer Prize.

  14. Palestine by Joe Sacco Palestine is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Joe Sacco about his experiences in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip December 1991 and January 1992. In Sacco’s portrayal, the Palestinian people are represented in a good little, with emphasis on their history and the strife and plight of their lives during this time both as a group, and as individuals.

  15. Persepolis by MarjaneSatrapi Persepolis is a French-language autobiographical graphic novel by MarjaneSatrapi. The graphic novel depicts her childhood up to early adulthood in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. In 2007, the first two installments were adapted into an animated film.

  16. Fun HomeAlison Bechdel In 2006, Bechdel published Fun Home, an autobiographical "tragicomic" chronicling her childhood and the years before and after her father's death. Fun Home has received more widespread mainstream attention than Bechdel's earlier work, with reviews in Entertainment Weekly, People and several features in The New York Times. Fun Home spent two weeks on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller lis

  17. The ArrivalShaun Tan The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.

  18. Content Enhancer How can visual media be used to supplement content being taught in an English classroom.

  19. Garreth Hinds Literary Classics done in a graphic novel format: Beowulf King Lear The Merchant of Venice Bearskin, a Grim Fairytale The Odyssey

  20. Other Literary Classis done in graphic novel form Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment Adapted by David Zane Mairowitz HamletBy William Shakespeare; adapted by Steven Grant and Tom Mandrake The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien; illustrated by David Wenzel; adapted byCharles Dixon with Sean Deming. The IliadAdapted by Roy Thomas and Miguel Angel Sepulveda; adapted from the Epic Poem by Homer The Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka; adapted by Peter Kuper Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian GrayIllustrated by I.N.J. Culbard; adapted by Ian Edginton Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeIllustrated and adapted by AndrzejKlimowski and DanusiaSchejbal William Shakespeare's Macbeth: The Graphic NovelIllustrated by Tony Leonard Tamai; script by Arthur Byron Cover  Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 45 :The Authorized Adaptationby Tim Hamilton 

  21. Assessments How to use visual media and activities as formative and summative assessments

  22. What are some visual assessments you can think of:

  23. Take these Owly frames and Use them to create a discussion Between two characters in The novels

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