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The classic Persian poem of romance and tragedy captured as a sumptuous and richly colorful graphic novel, inspired by traditional art of the region. Winner of the prestigious Prix Orange de la bande dessinée 2022 NYPL List of Best New Comics of 2023 for Adults It is a story known around the world. Born of…
Employing a wide range of scholarly approaches, such as reception studies, feminist studies, racial studies and posthumanism studies, this volume examines the classical influence on the character of Wonder Woman. In particular, the contributors look at the cultural phenomenon of this female superhero across comic books and film. The result is an in-depth study that…
About the Book TIMELESS NARRATIVES BY LITERARY LEGEND SAADAT HASSAN MANTO COMES ALIVE IN A CONTEMPORARY COMIC VERSION. The book is a compilation of two short stories in comic format. Set during the partition of India in 1947, Toba Tek Singh revolves around the inmates of a Lahore mental asylum and their impending transfer to…
In its expanded third edition, this definitive work on Classics Illustrated explores the enduring series of comic-book adaptations of literary masterpieces in even greater depth, with twice the number of color plates as in the second edition. Drawing on interviews, correspondence, fanzines, and archival research, the book covers in full detail the work of the…
About the Book TIMELESS NARRATIVES BY INDIAN LITERARY MAESTRO MUNSHI PREMCHAND COME ALIVE IN A CONTEMPORARY COMIC VERSION. The book is a compilation of two short stories in comic format. EIDGAH Four-year-old Hamid says goodbye to his grandmother and sets out with his friends to have fun at the village fair, on Eid. But he…
About the Book TIMELESS NARRATIVES BY LITERARY MAESTRO RAVINDRANATH TAGORE COME ALIVE IN A CONTEMPORARY COMIC VERSION. The book is a compilation of two short stories in comic format. Kabuliwala is a heart-warming tale of an unusual friendship between an Afghani merchant and a young girl called Mini. One of the best stories of the…
This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a specifically archaeological perspective, foregrounding the representation and narrative use of material cultures. It…
The Little Warrior is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on October 8, 1920 by George H. Doran, New York, (under the title The Little Warrior), and in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on 4 July 1921. It was serialised in Collier’s (US) between 10 April and…
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….
Known as France’s Ninth Art, the bande dessinée has a status far surpassing that of the equivalent English-language comic strip. This publication, one of the first predominantly in English on the subject, provides a thorough introduction to questions of BD history, context and bibliography. Theoretical issues – including the reception of the early proto-BD prior…
This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a specifically archaeological perspective, foregrounding the representation and narrative use of material cultures. It…
Vers 1855, à 32 ans, Alfred est le meilleur notaire de France. Un jour, il frappe le nez d’un ottoman: Ayvaz. Le lendemain, Ayvaz le provoque en duel et lui coupe le nez d’un coup de sabre. Le docteur Bernier coud le bras d’un quidam, Romagné, au visage d’Alfred pendant un mois. Celui-ci donne 100…
Cádiz es la octava novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Continúa con el relato novelado de la Guerra de Independencia entre España y Francia. En esta entrega se hace una pausa en la descripción de las hazañas bélicas para centrar la acción en la relación entre el protagonista,…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of…
El oráculo habÃa vaticinado a Layo, rey de Tebas, que de él y su esposa, Yocasta nacerÃa un hijo que le darÃa muerte y se casarÃa después con su madre. Al nacer un hijo de dichos soberanos, su madre lo entregó a un pastor para que lo dejase morir abandonado en la montaña. Movido éste…
“Amy Foster” is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1901, first published in the Illustrated London News (December 1901), and collected in Typhoon and Other Stories (1903). “It is difficult to read ‘Amy Foster’ without thinking that Conrad must have feared dying a similar death, inconsolable, alone, talking away in a language no…
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