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Son of classics and comics /
Wonder Woman. Asterix the Gaul. Watchmen. These popular comics, and many others, use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present. This volume explores that rich interaction. Son of Classics and Comics presents thirteen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Classical presences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Postmodern Odysseys
- 1. Odysseus and The Infinite Horizon / C.W. Marshall
- 2. Mythic Totality in Age of Bronze / George Kovacs
- 3. Classical Symbolism in Asterios Polyp / HyoSil Suzy Hwang-Eschelbacher
- pt. TWO East's Wests
- 4. Mecha in Olympus: Shirow Masamune's Appleseed / Gideon Nisbet
- 5. (Un)reading the Odyssey in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind / Nicholas Theisen
- 6. Xerxes, Lost City in the Desert: Classical Allusions in Fullmetal Alchemist / Sara Raup Johnson
- pt. THREE All Gaul
- 7. Reinventing the Barbarian: Classical Ethnographic Perceptions in Asterix / Eran Almagor
- 8. Asterix and the Dream of Autochthony / Stuart Barnett
- 9. We're Not in Gaul Anymore: The Global Translation of Asterix / Siobhan McElduff
- pt. FOUR Modern Classics
- 10. Classical Allusion in Modern British Political Cartoons / Michael K. Mackenzie
- 11. Eliot with an Epic, Rowson with a Comic: Recycling Foundational Narratives / Edward Brunner
- 12. Ozymandias the Dreamer: Watchmen and Alexander the Great / Matthew Taylor
- 13. And They Call That Poison Food: Desire and Traumatic Spectatorship in the Lucifer Retelling of Genesis / Kate Polak.