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- Ashkenazi, Ofer, et al.
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Comics as Historiography
- 2019
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Ingår i: ImageTexT. - : Dept of English, University of Florida. - 1549-6732. ; 11:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper considers potential ways comics narratives with a documentary claim can participate in the academic discussion of history. Academic historiography constructs (normally literal, mainly text based) arguments about historical events through discussions of (often written) sources, with reference to and in dialog with other relevant positions (Evans, 2012). While comics narration and imagery does not conform to the conventions of academic historiography, we are interested in the possibility of a mutually beneficial dialog between the arguments, and the ways they are manifested, in certain comics narratives and the ones that constitute the academic discourse of history. The following analysis focuses on a precondition for such dialog: the utilization of sources, and the explanation of how these sources are used to the readers, in comics that claim to reliably portray and explicate aspects of historical reality . As case studies, we look into four different approaches to historical comics: two graphic novels, one chapter in a comics anthology, and an archaeological paper in comics format. We will investigate their particular ways of informing readers about research methods that were employed for preparing the story, and about the provenience of archival materials that were, directly or indirectly, quoted in the comics. An integral part of the historical argument that these works make respectively involves reflections on the attempt to understand reality; we will discuss at how these attempts are communicated, to evaluate their adherence to the expectations of academic historiography.
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- Sadri, Houman, 1971
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"Submission is Faith in the Strength of Others": Synthesizing Male and Female Aspects of War in Azzarello and Chiang's Wonder Woman
- 2018
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Ingår i: ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. - 1549-6732. ; 9:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang’s recent six-volume "Wonder Woman" run, the eponymous character is obliged to take up the mantle of the God of War after the death of Ares and in the seeming-absence of Athena, and it is only by combining the attributes of both deities that she is able to prevail in both her new role and her battle with the First Born. This synthesis has several implications, foremost of which is the idea that the embodiment of war represents a series of seeming-oxymorons, with Diana’s ultimate refusal to save the First Born from what he characterises as a fate worse than death seen as an act of, as she puts it, 'Tough Love.' This is a synthesis of violence and mercy, and as such represents the aforementioned fusion of gender aspects and is an affirmation of the original ideas of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston, who believed that triumph could only be achieved within submission, an idea characterised by Diana herself as, 'Faith in the strength of others.' Finally, the trajectory of the heroic journey undertaken by central character of this set of tales hews closely to the monomythical pattern set out by Joseph Campbell in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces."
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- Ursini, Francesco-Alessio, 1978-
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Language and Thought in The Invisibles
- 2015
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Ingår i: ImageTexT. - 1549-6732. ; 8:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to explore how the relation between language and cognition is used as a complex trope in the 1994-2000 comic The Invisibles (Morrison et al.). The Invisibles features a secret language that different characters can access and use to manipulate how other characters can cognize reality. Although this secret language seems to posit the existence of a universal ability of humans to access an enriched understanding of reality, such secret language is also used as a tool of ultimate cognitive manipulation. Thus, language and cognition act as a complex trope that Morrison employs to explore themes of freedom and control, as well as different views on the mind/external world problem. We address this complex trope by discussing which scientific theories of language and cognition appear to be implemented in the story, and how they are used as tropes in the narrative.
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- Ursini, Francesco-Alessio, et al.
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Which Side are You On? The Worlds of Grant Morrison
- 2015
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Ingår i: ImageTexT. - University of Florida Press, USA : ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. - 1549-6732. ; 8:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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