The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry …
This book began with two questions. Firstly, what role did the comic book superhero play in the history of posthumanism? Secondly, how did comic book readers relate to these …
This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the discussion draws …
Devised in the 1940s by the biologist CH Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it …
SM Squier - Literature and Medicine, 2008 - muse.jhu.edu
Susan M. Squier i'm sorry to say i never knew Jo Banks. 1 But i know of her from her friends, who have written movingly of this remarkable woman, co-editor of a magisterial collection of …
Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in …
ICM Williams - Medicine, health and the arts, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
The medium of comics has been acclaimed over recent years as being worthy of study by scholars as a significant cultural product, both in a material sense and as a philosophy and …
Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics …
GT Couser - a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
If the great advantage of the graphic memoir of illness and disability is that it features the body in the text, for greatest effectiveness—and af fectiveness—the body ought to be …