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Comics and Sacred Texts : Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives /
"Comics and Sacred Texts explores how comics and notions of the sacred interweave new modes of seeing and understanding the sacral. Comics and graphic narratives help readers see religion in the everyday and in depictions of God, in transfigured, heroic selves as much as in the lives of saints...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Seeing the sacred in comics
- Writing the sacred in Craig Thompson's Habibi
- God's comics: the Hebrew alphabet as graphic narrative
- The ineffability of form: speaking and seeing the sacred in Tina's Mouth and the Rabbi's Cat
- The seven traits of fictoscripture and the wormhole sacred
- Reimagining sacred texts through comics
- Many comic book Ramayanas: idealizing and opposing Rama as the righteous God-king
- The ending of mark as a page-turn reveal
- Slaying a biblical archetype: 1 Samuel, Gauld's Goliath, and the new midrash
- Transrendering biblical bodies: reading sex in the action bible and genesis illustrated
- Transfigured comic selves, monsters, and the body
- The dark phoenix as "promising monster": an interdisciplinary approach to teaching Marvel's X-men: the dark phoenix saga
- "Honor the power within": Daoist wizards, popular culture, and contemporary Japan's spiritual crisis
- Joe Kubert's Yossel: April 19, 1943: faith and art history's precedents
- The everyday sacred in comics
- Urban revelation in Paul Madonna's postsecular comics
- The common place: the poetics of the pedestrian in Kevin Huizenga's walkin'
- Marvel's fallen son and making the ordinary sacred
- Will Eisner: master of graphic wisdom.