Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Green, Matthew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101846
• Artikelnr.: 57471468

Autorenporträt

Matthew J. A. Green is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nottingham

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Monstrous politics 1. Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition - Matthew
J.A. Green 2. 'Soap opera of the paranormal': surreal Englishness and
postimperial Gothic in The Bojeffries Saga - Tony Venezia 3. A Gothic
politics: Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and radical ecology - Maggie Gray Part
II: Gothic tropes 4. 'Is that you, our Jack?': an anatomy of Alan Moore's
doubling strategies - Jochen Ecke 5. 'Nothing ever ends': facing the
apocalypse in Watchmen - Christian W. Schneider 6. Gothic liminality in V
for Vendetta - Markus Oppolzer Part III: Inheritance and adaptation 7. 'The
sleep of reason': Swamp Thing and the intertextual reader - Michael
Bradshaw 8. Madness and the City: the collapse of reason and sanity in Alan
Moore's From Hell - Monica Germanà 9. 'I fashioned a prison that you could
not leave': the Gothic imperative in The Castle of Otranto and 'For the man
who has everything' - Brad Ricca 10. Radical coterie and the idea of sole
survival in St Leon, Frankenstein and Watchmen - Claire Sheridan 11.
Reincarnating Mina Murray: subverting the Gothic heroine? - Laura Hilton
Part IV: Art, magic, sex, other 12. 'These are not our promised
resurrections': unearthing the uncanny in Alan Moore's A Small Killing,
From Hell, and A Disease of Language - Christopher Murray 13. Medium,
spirits and embodiment in Voice of the Fire - Julia Round 14. A darker
magic: heterocosms and bricolage in Moore's recent reworkings of Lovecraft
- Matthew J. A. Green Index