"The Graphic Canon, Volume 2"gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists including Maxon Crumb and Gris Grimly present their versions of Edgar Allan Poe s visions. The great American novel"Huckleberry Finn"is adapted uncensored for the first time, as Twain wrote it. The bad boys of Romanticism Shelley, Keats, and Byron are visualized here, and so are the Bronte sisters. We see both of Coleridge s most famous poems: Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (the latter by British comics legend Hunt Emerson). Philosophy and science are...
"The Graphic Canon, Volume 2"gives us a visual cornucopia based on the wealth of literature from the 1800s. Several artists including Maxon Crumb and ...
The most complete Gilgamesh in translation--including the new discoveries from tablet V. THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the Uhr epic--the hero's journey, quest, and education--inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. Sumerian versions of the epic date back almost 5000 years. It is a Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being and therefore a wise king, and to do so, besides defeating lions and monsters and surviving great physical and emotional suffering, he must face, and answer,...
The most complete Gilgamesh in translation--including the new discoveries from tablet V. THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the Uhr epic--the ...
