Romanticism in Comics : Faith, Myth, and Mood / Nick Katsiadas.

Rochester, New York : RIT Press, [2022]

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"Comics studies scholars engaging comparative mythology tend to limit critical approaches to superhero fiction and classical and religious texts. Even the popular argument that superheroes are a "modern mythology" typically does not venture outside these limitations. Tolkien's legendarium, Lovecraft's mythos, Tennyson's revisions to Arthurian myth, and Blake's mythology don't quite fit the creative models that prevailing criticism considers in comparative studies. Nick Katsiadas explores a greater literary history of myth in comics in his examinations of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Alan Moore and J. H. Williams III's Promethea, and Mike Carey and Peter Gross's The Unwritten. The Romantics particularly used myth to highlight ideas about the value of imagination and creativity, and Katsiadas traces how these ways of thinking about literature and the arts persisted up through twentieth and twenty-first century comics. In this way, Romanticism in Comics helps us better understand comics' greater literary history and, also, helps us reread and better situate Romanticism's legacy in twentieth and twenty-first century art forms and ways of life"-- Provided by publisher.

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