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 at how classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience.
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 at how classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
George Kovacs teaches at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. C.W. Marshall is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre at the University of British Columbia.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface, C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs * Acknowledgments * 1: Comics and Classics: Establishing a Critical Frame, George Kovacs * Seeing the Past through 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 Divinities Revisited, 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
* Preface, C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs * Acknowledgments * 1: Comics and Classics: Establishing a Critical Frame, George Kovacs * Seeing the Past through 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 Divinities Revisited, 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
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