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Grant Morrison - Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Marc Singer is assistant professor of English at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He is coeditor of Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World . Klappentext One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres--superhero, science fiction, and fantasy--that dominate the American and British comics industries. His comics range from bestsellers featuring the most universally recognized superhero franchises (All-Star Superman, New X-Men, Batman) to more independent, creator-owned work (The Invisibles, The Filth, We3) that defies any generic classification.In Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics, author Marc Singer examines how Morrison uses this fusion of styles to intervene in the major political, aesthetic, and intellectual challenges of our time. His comics blur the boundaries between fantasy and realism, mixing autobiographical representation and cultural critique with heroic adventure. They offer self-reflexive appraisals of their own genres while they experiment with the formal elements of comics. Perhaps most ambitiously, they challenge contemporary theories of language and meaning, seeking to develop new modes of expression grounded in comics' capacity for visual narrative and the fantasy genres' ability to make figurative meanings literal. Zusammenfassung One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics! Grant Morrison brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres that dominate the American and British comics industries. Marc Singer examines how Morrison uses this fusion of styles to intervene in the major political! aesthetic! and intellectual challenges of our time.

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Authors Dr Marc Singer, Marc Singer
Publisher University of mississippi pres
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.11.2011
 
EAN 9781617031366
ISBN 978-1-61703-136-6
No. of pages 256
Series Great Comics Artists Series
Great Comics Artists
Great Comics Artists Series
Great Comics Artists
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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