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Author:   Darragh Greene ,  Kate Roddy
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780786478101

ISBN 10:   0786478101
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   10 August 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Darragh Greene and Kate Roddy) Part I: Formal Analysis “And so we return and begin again”: The Immersive/Recursive Strategies of Morrison’s Puzzle Narratives (Chris Murray) “Screw symbolism and let’s go home”: Morrison and Bathos (Kate Roddy) The Writer and “the Writer”: The Death of the Author in Suicide Squad #58 (Roy T. Cook) “Let me slip into someone more comfortable”: The Imaginary Adolescence of the Superhero (Keith Scott) Parasitic Signifiers: The Invasiveness of Language in Grant Morrison’s Comics (Clare Pitkethly) Part II: Thematic Analysis From Shame into Glory in The Filth (David Coughlan) “The Jungian Stuff”: Symbols of Transformation in All-Star Superman (Darragh Greene) The Dark Knight and the Devil: Demons and Demonology in Batman, 2005–2013 (Schedel Luitjen) “Our Father, Who Art in Gotham”: The Life, Death and Rebirth of Batman (Nicholas Galante) Fallout Boys: Paranoia, Power and Control in Morrison’s Cold War Superheroes (Muireann ­O’Sullivan) “Morrison Inc.” and Themes of Benevolent Capitalism (Emmet ­O’Cuana) Bibliography About the Contributors Index

Reviews

Long known for his innovative and groundbreaking comic book stories, Morrison's long and impressive list of works are analyzed and taken apart piece by piece...Morrison's 'unique' take on the world of comic books and the characters that inhabit them has successfully transformed and changed the industry for good...Morrison has brought out more maturity and richer stories to the medium of comic books --Collectors' Corner.

Long known for his innovative and groundbreaking comic book stories, Morrison's long and impressive list of works are analyzed and taken apart piece by piece...Morrison's 'unique' take on the world of comic books and the characters that inhabit them has successfully transformed and changed the industry for good...Morrison has brought out more maturity and richer stories to the medium of comic books --Collector's Corner.

"""Long known for his innovative and groundbreaking comic book stories, Morrison's long and impressive list of works are analyzed and taken apart piece by piece...Morrison's 'unique' take on the world of comic books and the characters that inhabit them has successfully transformed and changed the industry for good...Morrison has brought out more maturity and richer stories to the medium of comic books""--Collectors' Corner."

Author Information

Darragh Greene lectures in Medieval Studies at University College Dublin. He has published essays on medieval English literature, Chaucer, Shakespeare, James Joyce, and comics author Grant Morrison. Kate Roddy is an occasional lecturer and seminar leader at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. She has published on sixteenth-century literature and gender and sexuality in comic book fandom.

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