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Classics and comics /
Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman's Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [U.K.] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Classical presences.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.