Format:
xii, 366 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
1441158472
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0826430260
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9781441158475
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9780826430267
Note:
Includes bibliography (p. 357 - 360) and index
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Foreword:Looking for God in the gutter
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Introduction
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Devil's reading: revenge and revelation in American comics
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London (and the mind) as sacred-desecrated place in Alan Moore's From hell
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Drawing contracts: Will Eisner's legacy
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Catholic American citizenship: prescriptions for children from Treasure chest of fun and fact (1946-63)
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Gold plates, inked pages: the authority of the graphic novel
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Comics and religion: theoretical connections
,
Killing the graven God: visual representations of the divine in comics
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Echoes of eternity: Hindu reincarnation motifs in superhero comic books
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Christianizing of animism in manga and anime: American translations of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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On Preacher (or, The death of God in pictures)
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Superman graveside: superhero salvation beyond Jesus
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"Theapocalypse of adolescence": use of the Bildungsroman and superheroic tropes in Mark Millar and Peter Gross's Chosen
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From God nose to God's bosom, or How God (and Jack Jackson) began underground comics
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Hesitant embace: comic books and evangelicals
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Narrative and pictorial dualism in Persepolis and the emergence of complexity
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Machina ex deus: perennialism in comics
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Conversion to narrative: magic as religious language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles
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"Themagic circus of the mind": Alan Moore's Promethea and the transformation of consciousness through comics
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Religion and Artesia/Religion in Artesia
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Present gods, absent believers in Sandman
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Tell-tale visions: the erotic theology of Craig Thompson's Blankets
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Comic
;
Graphic Novel
;
Religion
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