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Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century
$200.00Images, representations and constructions of mothers have historically shaped and continue to shape the way we imagine the institution of motherhood and the experience of mothering. The various contributions included in this volume consider the diversity of maternal images and narratives that circulate in literature, the arts and popular culture and analyse how they reflect…
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Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century
$57.99Images, representations and constructions of mothers have historically shaped and continue to shape the way we imagine the institution of motherhood and the experience of mothering. The various contributions included in this volume consider the diversity of maternal images and narratives that circulate in literature, the arts and popular culture and analyse how they reflect…
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The Routledge Companion to Comics
$65.99This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field. Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of…
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Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation
$59.99This volume attends to the physicality of superheroes: it examines how ideologies of race, gender and disability are signified or destabilized in the physicality of the superhero and presents an exploration of superheroes across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel.
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Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus
$57.99This book analyses the portrayals of the Holocaust in newspaper cartoons, educational pamphlets, short stories and graphic novels. Focusing on recognised and lesser-known illustrators from Europe and beyond, the volume looks at autobiographical and fictional accounts and seeks to paint a broader picture of Holocaust comic strips from the 1940s to the present. The book…
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Empirical Comics Research: Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods
$59.99This edited volume brings together work in the field of empirical comics research. Drawing on computer and cognitive science, psychology and art history, linguistics and literary studies, each chapter presents innovative methods and establishes the practical and theoretical motivations for the quantitative study of comics, manga, and graphic novels. Individual chapters focus on corpus studies,…
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The Representation of Japanese Politics in Manga: The Visual Literacy Of Statecraft
$59.99This edited volume explores political motives, discourses and agendas in Japanese manga and graphic art with the objective of highlighting the agency of Japanese and wider Asian story-telling traditions within the context of global political traditions.
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Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes
$200.00This book aims to illuminate the unique character of Grandes s major postmillennial novels by examining the heretofore unexamined themes of perpetrator and gender memory, as well as reconceiving her representation of the memory of victimhood.
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Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities
$61.99This volume examines new comic book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. Chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in 21st century (con)texts. Authors demonstrate that the
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Vertigo Comics: British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint
$200.00This book explores the so-called “British Invasion” of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s.
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Vertigo Comics: British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint
$57.99This book explores the so-called “British Invasion” of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s.
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“Fanned and Winnowed Opinions”: Shakespearean Essays Presented to Harold Jenkins
$180.00First published in 1987, this title celebrates the scholarship of Professor Harold Jenkins, one of this century’s foremost editors and critics of Shakespeare. All of the essays address Shakespearean topics, and many of the sixteen focus on the years between 1595 and 1605, the period on which much of Professor Jenkin’s work centers.
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“Fanned and Winnowed Opinions”: Shakespearean Essays Presented to Harold Jenkins
$49.99First published in 1987, this title celebrates the scholarship of Professor Harold Jenkins, one of this century’s foremost editors and critics of Shakespeare. All of the essays address Shakespearean topics, and many of the sixteen focus on the years between 1595 and 1605, the period on which much of Professor Jenkin’s work centers.