Classics and Comics
Series: Classical Presences;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 March 2011
- ISBN 9780199734184
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 185x254x25 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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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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.
There is much to be learned from this volume, not just about the comic art form but also about classics, which is truly the best and most productive form of reception studies.
Table of Contents:
Preface,C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs
Acknowledgments
Comics and Classics: Establishing a Critical Frame, George Kovacs
Seeing the Past through Sequential Art
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, Nicholas A. Theisen
Heroes Unlimited, Brett M. Rogers
Gods and Superheroes
The Furies, Wonder Woman, and Dream, 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', Benjamin Stevens
Drawing (on) History
Hard-Boiled Hot Gates, Vincent Tomasso
Persians in Frank Miller's 300 and Greek vase-painting, Emily Fairey
A Dream of Augustus, Anise K. Strong
Francophone Romes: Antiquity in les Bandes Dessinées, Martin Dinter
The Desires of Troy
Twenty-First Century Troy, Eric Shanower
Sex and Love in Eric Shanower's Age of Bronze, Chiara Sulprizio
Heavy Metal Homer, Thomas E. Jenkins
A reading list of Classics in Comics
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
