Classics and comics

Classics and Comics is the first book to explore the engagement of classics with the epitome of modern popular literature, the comic book. The volume collects fifteen articles, all specially commissioned for this volume, that look athow classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience. INDICE: Preface, C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs; Acknowledgments; 1: Comics and Classics: Establishing a Critical Frame, George Kovacs; Seeing the Pastthrough Sequential Art; 2: An Ancient Greek Graphic Novel (P. Oxy. XXII 2331), Gideon Nisbet; 3: Sequential Narrative and the Shield of Achilles, Kyle Johnson; 4: Declassicizing the classical in Japanese comics, Nicholas A. Theisen; 5: Heroes Unlimited, Brett M. Rogers; Gods and Superheroes; 6: The Furies, Wonder Woman, and Dream, C. W. Marshall; 7: Coming up to Code: Ancient DivinitiesRevisited, Craig Dethloff; 8: The Burden of War: From Homer to Oeming, R. Clinton Simms; 9: 'Seven Thunders Utter Their Voices', Benjamin Stevens; Drawing (on) History; 10: Hard-Boiled Hot Gates, Vincent Tomasso; 11: Persians in Frank Miller's 300 and Greek vase-painting, Emily Fairey; 12: A Dream of Augustus,Anise K. Strong; 13: Francophone Romes: Antiquity in les Bandes Dessinées, Martin Dinter; The Desires of Troy; 14: Twenty-First Century Troy, Eric Shanower; 15: Sex and Love in Eric Shanower's Age of Bronze, Chiara Sulprizio; 16: Heavy Metal Homer, Thomas E. Jenkins; A reading list of Classics in Comics; Contributors; Bibliography; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-973419-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés