Son of classics and comics /edited by George Kovacs and C.W. Marshall. 

 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations. 
 - Classical presences .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Postmodern Odysseys --  Odysseus and The Infinite Horizon /  Mythic Totality in Age of Bronze /  Classical Symbolism in Asterios Polyp /  East's Wests --  Mecha in Olympus: Shirow Masamune's Appleseed /  (Un)reading the Odyssey in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind /  Xerxes, Lost City in the Desert: Classical Allusions in Fullmetal Alchemist /  All Gaul --  Reinventing the Barbarian: Classical Ethnographic Perceptions in Asterix /  Asterix and the Dream of Autochthony /  We're Not in Gaul Anymore: The Global Translation of Asterix /  Modern Classics --  Classical Allusion in Modern British Political Cartoons /  Eliot with an Epic, Rowson with a Comic: Recycling Foundational Narratives /  Ozymandias the Dreamer: Watchmen and Alexander the Great /  And They Call That Poison Food: Desire and Traumatic Spectatorship in the Lucifer Retelling of Genesis /  C.W. Marshall --  George Kovacs --  HyoSil Suzy Hwang-Eschelbacher --  Gideon Nisbet --  Nicholas Theisen --  Sara Raup Johnson --  Eran Almagor --  Stuart Barnett --  Siobhan McElduff --  Michael K. Mackenzie --  Edward Brunner --  Matthew Taylor --  Kate Polak. 
<br/><br/> 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 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 passages are translated. Lavishly illustrated, the volume significantly widens the range of available studies on the reception of the Greek and Roman worlds in comics, 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. -- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780190268909 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015008772 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.--United States<br/>Classical literature--Influence.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN6725  / .S666 2016