Son of Classics and Comics by George Kovacs
Wonder Woman, Amazon Princess; Asterix, indefatigable Gaul; Ozymandias, like Alexander looking for new worlds to conquer. Comics use classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and deepen the stories they present. Son of Classics and Comics explores that rich interaction. This volume 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 (OUP, 2011), Kovacs and Marshall have gathered a wide range of studies with a new, global perspective. Chapters are helpfully grouped to facilitate classroom use, with sections on receptions of Homer, on manga, on Asterix, and on the sense of a 'classic' in the modern world. All Greek and Latin are translated. Lavishly illustrated, the volume widens the range of available studies on the reception of the Greek and Roman worlds in comics significantly, and deepens our understanding of comics as a literary medium. Son of Classics and Comics will appeal to students and scholars of classical reception as well as comics fans.-
Laughing with Medusa
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Stand in the Trench, Achilles
- Sophocles' Antigone in Early Modern English Drama
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E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics
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Greek Tragedy on Screen
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Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus
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The Living Death of Antiquity
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Latin Américan Antígonas: An Anthology of Seven Translated Plays
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Classics and Media Theory
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Fragmentary Modernism
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames
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Childhood and the Classics
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David Jones and Rome
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Roman Receptions of Sappho
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The Irish Classical Self
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Madly after the Muses
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Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity
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Beyond Greece and Rome
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Between Jerusalem and Athens
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The Other Virgil
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Hegel's Antiquity
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Women Classical Scholars
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Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction
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Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature
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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity
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Postdramatic Tragedies
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Virgil and his Translators
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Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing
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Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage
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Homer's Daughters
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Film and the Classical Epic Tradition
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Athens in Paris
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Remembering Parthenope
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Romans and Romantics
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Classics and Comics
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The Senecan Aesthetic
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Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
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Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France
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Crossroads in the Black Aegean
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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
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Lucretius and the Early Modern
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The Nation and its Ruins
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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics
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The Classics and Colonial India
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Sciences of Antiquity
Studies presented by George Kovacz and CW. Marshall in their book show current comics as very complicated works, which are in no way lacking when compared with current prose. Classic philologists may be cured by this book from their notion that comics are only rather and easy play for children who are too lazy to read. * Eva Stehlíková, Eirene - Studia Gracea et Latina *
George Kovacs is Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Together, they have co-edited Classics and Comics (OUP, 2011) and No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy (BCP, 2012).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780190268886 |
| ISBN 10 | 0190268883 |
| Title | Son of Classics and Comics |
| Author | George Kovacs |
| Series | Classical Presences |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2015-12-10 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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