UID:
almafu_9961565889802883
Format:
1 online resource (289 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-026891-3
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0-19-026890-5
Series Statement:
Classical presences
Content:
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 original studies of representations of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the foundation established by their groundbreaking Classics and Comics (2011), George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall have gathered a wide range of essays with a new, global perspective. Chapters are helpfully gr
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover -- Series -- Son of Classics and Comics -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One Postmodern Odysseys -- 1. Odysseus and The Infinite Horizon -- 2. Mythic Totality in Age of Bronze -- 3. Classical Symbolism in Asterios Polyp -- Part Two East's Wests -- 4. Mecha in Olympus: Shirow Masamune's Appleseed -- 5. (Un)reading the Odyssey in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind -- 6. Xerxes, Lost City in the Desert: Classical Allusions in Fullmetal Alchemist -- Part Three All Gaul -- 7. Reinventing the Barbarian: Classical Ethnographic Perceptions in Astérix -- 8. Astérix and the Dream of Autochthony -- 9. We're Not in Gaul Anymore: The Global Translation of Astérix -- Part Four Modern Classics -- 10. Classical Allusion in Modern British Political Cartoons -- 11. Eliot with an Epic, Rowson with a Comic: Recycling Foundational Narratives -- 12. Ozymandias the Dreamer: Watchmen and Alexander the Great -- 13. And They Call That Poison Food: Desire and Traumatic Spectatorship in the Lucifer Retelling of Genesis -- Bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-026888-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-026889-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
