Classics and Comics Paperback / softback
Edited by George (, Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario) Kovacs, C. W. (Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre, Associate Professor of Greek and Ro Marshall
Part of the Classical Presences series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 irrelevant-as with Hercules' starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries.
But all of these make implicit or explicit claims about the place of classics in modern literary culture.
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 sixteen articles, all specially commissioned for this volume, that look at how classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience.
It opens with a detailed historical introduction surveying the role of classical material in comics since the 1930s.
Subsequent chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the incorporation of modern theories of myth into the creation and interpretation of comic books, the appropriation of characters from classical literature and myth, and the reconfiguration of motif into a modern literary medium.
Among the well-known comics considered in the collection are Frank Miller's 300 and Sin City, DC Comics' Wonder Woman, Jack Kirby's The Eternals, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and examples of Japanese manga.
The volume also includes an original 12-page "comics-essay," drawn and written by Eisner Award-winning Eric Shanower, creator of the graphic novel series Age of Bronze.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:31/03/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199734191
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:31/03/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199734191
