Book
The graphic canon, volume 1 : from the epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous liaisons
Call Number
- GRAPHIC NOVEL GRAP (CEN)
Edition
A Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Seven Stories Press, c2012.
Physical Description
x, 501 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Three panel review: Hamlet / The epic of Gilgamesh / "Coyote and the pebbles" / The Iliad / The Odyssey / Poem fragments / Medea / Lysistrata / The book of Esther / Symposium / Tao te ching
- Mahabharata / Analects and other writings / The book of Daniel / On the nature of things / Aeneid / The book of Revelation / Three Tang poems / Beowulf / The tale of Genji / The letters of Heloise and Abelard / "O nobilissima viriditas" / "The fisherman and the genie" / "The woman with two coyntes"
- Poems / The divine comedy / The inferno / The Tibetan book of the dead (Bardo Thodol) / "The last ballad" / The Canterbury Tales / Le morte d'Arthur / Apu Ollantay / Outlaws of the water margin / Hagoromo (celestial feather robe) / Popol Vuh / The visions of St. Teresa of Ávila / "Hot sun, cool fire"
- Journey to the west / The faerie queene / A midsummer night's dream / King Lear / Don Quixote / Sonnet 18 / Sonnet 20 / "The flea" / "To his coy mistress" / "Forgive us our trespasses" / Paradise lost / Gulliver's travels / Candide
- "A modest proposal" / "Advice to a young man on the choice of a mistress" / London journal / "Letter to the Royal Academy of Brussels" (a.k.a. "Fart proudly") / A vindication of the rights of woman / Dangerous liaisons