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Sovereignty and superheroes /
This title marks a major contribution to the emerging field of comic studies and the growing literature on superheroes. Using a range of critical theorists, the book examines superheroes as sovereigns, addressing amongst other things the complex treatment of law and violence, legitimacy, and authori...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: sovereignty and superheroes; Notes; 1 Legitimacy and the Good; The Platonic form of the superhero; The Good and social change; A never-ending struggle; Notes; 2 Defending freedom; The nationalist superhero; Captain America's promise; Captain America's patriotism; National recuperation; Notes; 3 Law and violence; Law and the mark of community; The Law's violent shadow; The beast and the sovereign; Bruce Wayne's pathos; Notes; 4 Friend and enemy; Maintaining the distinction. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Deconstructing the distinction: autoimmunityDeconstructing the distinction: poison and cure; Reinstating the distinction; Notes; 5 Emergency and bare life; State of emergency/state of exception; The superhero's anomie; Anomie and the American monomyth; Anomie and the sovereign ban; Notes; 6 Symbolic authority and kinship; Another law; Totemism; Couplings and collectives; Notes; 7 Sovereignty at the limit; The contradiction of sovereignty; Limits and limitlessness; Meaningful worlds; The sovereign imagination; Notes; Postscript; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a This title marks a major contribution to the emerging field of comic studies and the growing literature on superheroes. Using a range of critical theorists, the book examines superheroes as sovereigns, addressing amongst other things the complex treatment of law and violence, legitimacy, and authority. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Sovereignty. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01127379 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a sovereignty. |2 aat | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Souverainete. | |
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