The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons

基本信息出版社:Seven Stories Press (2012年5月22日)平装:512页正文语种:英语ISBN:1609803760条形码:9781609803766商品重量:2.3 KgASIN:1609803760您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?

商品描述内容简介THE GRAPHIC CANON(Seven Stories Press) is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages.

Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we're treated to eye-popping renditions of the human race's greatest epics: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey (in watercolors by Gareth Hinds), TheAeneid, Beowulf, and The Arabian Nights, plus later epics The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales (both by legendary illustrator and graphic designer Seymour Chwast), Paradise Lost, and Le Morte D'Arthur. Two of ancient Greece's greatest plays are adapted—the tragedy Medea by Euripides and Tania Schrag’s uninhibited rendering of the very bawdy comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes (the text of which is still censored in many textbooks). Also included is Robert Crumb’s rarely-seen adaptation of James Boswell’s London Journal, filled with philosophical debate and lowbrow debauchery.

Religious literature is well-covered and well-illustrated, with the Books of Daniel and Esther from the Old Testament, Rick Geary’s awe-inspiring new rendition of the Book of Revelation from the New Testament, theTao te Ching, Rumi’s Sufi poetry, Hinduism’s Mahabharata, and the Mayan holy book Popol Vuh, illustrated by Roberta Gregory. The Eastern canon gets its due, with The Tale of Genji (the world’s first novel, done in full-page illustrations reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley), three poems from China’s golden age of literature lovingly drawn by pioneering underground comics artist Sharon Rudahl, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Japanese Noh play, and other works from Asia.

Two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays (King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and two of his sonnets are here, as are Plato’s Symposium, Gulliver’s Travels, Candide, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Renaissance poetry of love and desire, and Don Quixote visualized by the legendary Will Eisner.

Some unexpected twists in this volume include a Native American folktale, an Incan play, Sappho’s poetic fragments, bawdy essays by Benjamin Franklin, the love letters of Abelard and Heloise, and the decadent French classic Dangerous Liaisons, as illustrated by Molly

Crabapple.

Edited by Russ Kick,The Graphic Canonis an extraordinary collection that will continue withVolume 2: "Kubla Khan"to the

Bronte Sistersto The Picture of Dorian Grayin Summer 2012, andVolume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jestin Fall 2012. A boxed set of all three volumes will also be published in Fall 2012.媒体推荐“Through the reprinted and newly-produced work of 59 (mainly American) adapters and 58 adapted titles, this is not only a survey of the world’s diverse artistic past, but also a breathtaking glimpse of this young medium’s incredible future.”

—Booklist, starred review

“Starting withThe Epic of Gilgameshand ending withHamlet, this meaty slab is laced with more wit, beauty, social commentary and shock than one might expect.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Looks like a must-buy for all academic libraries, many public libraries, and many high schools, and an exciting new benchmark for comics!" —Martha Cornog,Library Journal

“In what looks to be the graphic publishing literary event of the year, Seven Stories Press will publish the first volume of theGraphic Canon: Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisonsin April, the first of a three-volume anthology of graphic interpretations of the world’s literary classics created by 130 comics artists and illustrators."—Calvin Reid,Publisher's Weekly