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Classics and comics
Title
Classics and comics / edited by George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall.
ISBN
9780199734184
0199734186
9780199734191 (alk. paper)
0199734194 (alk. paper)
Published
Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xiii, 265 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2011
Series
Classical presences
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Comics and classics: establishing a critical frame / George Kovacs
An ancient Greek graphic novel (p. oxy. xxii 2331) / Gideon Nisbet
Sequential narrative in the shield of Achilles / Kyle P. Johnson
Declassicizing the classical in Japanese comics: Osamu Tezuka's Apollo's song / Nicholas A. Theisen
Heroes unlimited: the theory of the hero's journey and the limitation of the superhero myth / Brett M. Rogers
The furies, Wonder Woman, and dream: mythmaking in DC comics / C. W. Marshall
Coming up to code: ancient divinities revisited / Craig Dethloff
The burden of war: from Homer to Oeming / R. Clinton Simms
'Seven thunders utter their voices': morality and comics history in kingdom come / Benjamin Stevens
Hard-boiled hot gates: making the classical past other in Frank Miller's Sin City / Vincent Tomasso
Persians in Frank Miller's 300 and Greek vase painting / Emily Fairey
A dream of Augustus: Neil Gaiman's Sandman and comics mythology / Anise K. Strong
Francophone Romes: antiquity in Les bandes dessinées / Martin T. Dinter
Twenty-first century Troy / Eric Shanower
Eros conquers all : sex and love in Eric Shanower's Age of bronze / Chiara Sulprizio
Heavy metal Homer: countercultural appropriations of The Odyssey in graphic novels / Thomas E. Jenkins
A reading list of classics in comics.
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