Tomeki
Cover of Alan Moore

Alan Moore

comics as performance, fiction as scalpel

By Annalisa Di Liddo,Annalisa Di Liddo

0 (0 Ratings)
0 Want to read0 Currently reading0 Have read

Publish Date

2009

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Language

eng

Pages

211

Description:

Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. --from publisher description