Classics and comics
By: edited by George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall.
Contributors: Kovacs, George.; Marshall, C. W., 1968-
Series: Classical presences
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780199734184; 9780199734191
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; Classical literature -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Comics and classics: establishing a critical frame / George Kovacs; title: An ancient Greek graphic novel (p. oxy. xxii 2331) / Gideon Nisbet; title: Sequential narrative and the shield of Achilles / Kyle Johnson; title: Declassicizing the classical in Japanese comics: Tezuka Osamu's Apollo's song / Nicholas A. Theisen; title: Heroes unlimited: the hero's journey and the limitation of superhero myth / Brett M. Rogers; title: The furies, Wonder Woman, and dream: mythmaking and DC comics / C. W. Marshall; title: Coming up to code: ancient divinities revisited / Craig Dethloff; title: The burden of war: from Homer to Oeming / R. Clinton Simms; title: 'Seven thunders utter their voices': morality and comics history in kingdom come / Benjamin Stevens; title: Hard-boiled hot gates: making the classical past other in Frank Miller's Sin City / Vincent Tomasso; title: Persians in Frank Miller's 300 and Greek vase-painting / Emily Fairey; title: A dream of Augustus: Neil Gaiman's Sandman and comics mythology / Anise K. Strong; title: Francophone romes: antiquity in Les bandes dessinees / Martin Dinter; title: Twenty-first century troy / Eric Shanower; title: Sex and love in Eric Shanower's Age of bronze / Chiara Sulprizio; title: Heavy metal Homer: countercultural appropriations of The Odyssey / Thomas E. Jenkins; title: A reading list of classics in comics.