American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion [electronic resource] : The Superhero Afterlife /
Lewis, A.author.
Unlocking a new and overdue model for reading comic books, this unique volume explores religious interpretations of popular comic book superheroes such as the Green Lantern and the Hulk. This superhero subgenre offers a hermeneutic for those interested in integrating mutiplicity into religious practices and considerations of the afterlife.
Description based upon print version of record.
Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgment and Apology; Introduction; You've Got the Wrong Book For . . .; It Takes a Bookshelf; From Here to There (and Hereafter); Chapter 1: The Six Elements of the Superhero Afterlife Subgenre; Chapter 2: The Comic Book Medium's Glimpse of Eternity; Chapter 3: Complexities of Character in Fantastic Four: Hereafter; Chapter 4: Planetary, Promethea, and the Multiplicity of Selfhood; Conclusion; 1 The Six Elements of the Superhero Afterlife Subgenre; Defining Genre Generically; When Genre's Bit by a Radioactive Spider
Building Down into SubgenreElement 1: Alternate Dimension; Element 2: Demon/Adversary-Alastor; Element 3: Heroic Reversal; Element 4: Familial Encounter; Element 5: Hallucination; Element 6: Liberated Character; Out of One's Element(s); 2 The Comic Book Medium's Glimpse of Eternity; Illustrating without Illustration; Crossing Jordan; Aevum: "Lotsa Luck Filming That!"; 3 Complexities of Character in Fantastic Four: Hereafter; Character Characteristics; Marvel's First Family, at Last; After Hereafter; 4 Planetary, Promethea, and the Multiplicity of Selfhood; Character Gone Wrong (in a Good Way)
Planetary AlignmentsThe Promise of Promethea; Elements of a Multiple Selfhood; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unlocking a new and overdue model for reading comic books, this unique volume explores religious interpretations of popular comic book superheroes such as the Green Lantern and the Hulk. This superhero subgenre offers a hermeneutic for those interested in integrating mutiplicity into religious practices and considerations of the afterlife.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Graphic design.
Religion.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
America-Literatures.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Graphic Design.
Religious Studies, general.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.