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Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels : a Critical Approach / Julia Round.
- Title
- Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels : a Critical Approach / Julia Round.
- Author
- Round, Julia,
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 260 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book explores the connections between comics and the Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary Gothic traditions and discusses their presence in British and American comics today, with particular attention to the DC Vertigo imprint"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A brief history of gothic -- A brief history of British and American comics and criticism -- Haunted places -- Excess, embodiment and artifice -- Revenant readers, the crypt and the archive -- A comparative study of goth and comics cultures -- Gothic content: absorption and atemporality -- Vampires and the penetrative bite and gaze -- Zombies, technology and medical magic.
- ISBN
- 9780786449804 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786449802 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013050519
- OCLC
- 853310460
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library