Author: Eduard Moyà File Type: pdf The Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands have always enticed the minds of British travellers. In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the islands accessible for a wide number of visitors, who depicted them in pictures and words. In the following decades, however, the image of the islands shifted and developed considerably from a quiet and pastoral winter resort to a popular destination for pleasure-seeking tourists and sea n sun tourism. Taking these last representations as a starting point, this book travels back in time to explain how, by whom and why these images were createdshifteddeveloped to articulate the ultimate place of leisure and pleasure signified in todays Majorca and Ibiza. The depiction and the evolution of topics such as travel, tourism, authenticity, landscape, South, North, margin, centre, exoticism, people, costumes and customs are examined in order to establish their contribution to the formulation of the Balearic paradise in the first third of the twentieth century. This book will help the reader to understand the imagery associated with the islands today.

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Author: George Kovacs File Type: pdf 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 Womans Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irrelevant-as with Hercules starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries. But all of these make implicit or explicit claims about the place of classics in modern literary culture.Classics and Comics is the first book to explore the engagement of classics with the epitome of modern popular literature, the comic book. This volume collects sixteen articles, all specially commissioned for this volume, that look at how classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience. It opens with a detailed historical introduction surveying the role of classical material in comics since the 1930s. Subsequent chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the incorporation of modern theories of myth into the creation and interpretation of comic books, the appropriation of characters from classical literature and myth, and the reconfiguration of motif into a modern literary medium. Among the well-known comics considered in the collection are Frank Millers 300 and Sin City, DC Comics Wonder Woman, Jack Kirbys The Eternals, Neil Gaimans Sandman, and examples of Japanese manga. The volume also includes an original 12-page comics-essay, drawn and written by Eisner Award-winning Eric Shanower, creator of the graphic novel series Age of Bronze.