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Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition /
The first book-length study to address Moore's significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- A note on references and quotations
- Dedication
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Monstrous politics
- Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition
- 'Soap opera of the paranormal': surreal Englishness and postimperial Gothic in The Bojeffries Saga
- A Gothic politics: Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and radical ecology
- Part II Gothic tropes
- 'Is that you, our Jack?': an anatomy of Alan Moore's doubling strategies
- 'Nothing ever ends': facing the apocalypse in Watchmen
- Gothic liminality in in V for Vendetta
- Part III Inheritance and adaptation
- 'The Sleep of Reason': Swamp Thing and the intertextual reader
- Madness and the city: the collapse of reason and sanity in Alan Moore's From Hell
- 'I fashioned a prison that you could not leave': the Gothic imperative in The Castle of Otranto and 'For the Man Who Has Everything'
- Radical coterie and the idea of sole survival in St Leon, Frankenstein and Watchmen
- Reincarnating Mina Murray: subverting the Gothic heroine?
- Part IV: Art, magic, sex, other
- 'These are not our promised resurrections': unearthing the uncanny in Alan Moore's A Small Killing, From Hell and A Disease of Language
- Medium, spirits and embodiment in Voice of the Fire
- A darker magic: heterocosms and bricolage in Moore's recent reworkings of Lovecraft
- Bibliography
- Index