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Alan Moore and the Gothic t...
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
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monografia Rebiun29208519 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun29208519 m o d | cr ||||||||||| 160624r20162013enka fob 001 0 eng d 9781526101839 e-book) 1526101831 UKAHL eng rda pn UKAHL OCLCO OCLCQ EBLCP UKAHL LOA OCLCO OCLCF Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition Matthew J.A. Green Manchester Manchester University Press 2016 Manchester Manchester Manchester University Press 1 online resource illustrations (black and white) 1 online resource Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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 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 Graphic novels Graphic novels Electronic books Green, Matthew J. A. 1975-) editor