Classics and comics

Oxford University Press

2011

1 v. (XIII-265 p.)

Classical presences

9780199734184

Comics and classics: establishing a critical frame / George Kovacs -- An ancient Greek graphic novel (p. oxy -- xxii 2331) / Gideon Nisbet -- Sequential narrative and the shield of Achilles / Kyle Johnson -- Declassicizing the classical in Japanese comics: Tezuka Osamu's Apollo's song / Nicholas A. Theisen -- Heroes unlimited: the hero's journey and the limitation of superhero myth / Brett M. Rogers -- The furies, Wonder Woman, and dream: mythmaking and 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 dessinees / Martin Dinter -- Twenty-first century troy / Eric Shanower -- Sex and love in Eric Shanower's Age of bronze / Chiara Sulprizio -- Heavy metal Homer: countercultural appropriations of The Odyssey / Thomas E. Jenkins -- A reading list of classics in 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 at how classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience.

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