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Classics and comics / edited by George Kovacs and C. W. Marshall.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Classical presences.
- Classical presences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Classical literature--Influence.
- Classical literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Seeing the past through sequential art
- pt. 2. Gods and superheroes
- pt. 3. Drawing (on) history
- pt. 4. The desires of troy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-97782-2
- 9786612977824
- 0-19-979236-4
- OCLC:
- 701051484
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