Comics and sacred texts: reimagining religion and graphic narratives
How comics, graphic novels, and sacred texts work in concert to expand our sense of the holy
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson
University Press of Mississippi
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Comics and sacred texts : Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives] (2020) (Smith, Andrew C.)
[Rezension von: Comics and sacred texts : Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives] (2021) (Cusack, Carole M., 1962 -) [Rezension von: Comics and sacred texts : Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives] (2020) (Born, Simon Philipp) |
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Cartoon
/ Comic strip
/ Holy books
/ Religious literature
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Collection of essays
B Conference program |
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| Summary: | How comics, graphic novels, and sacred texts work in concert to expand our sense of the holy Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Comics and Sacred Texts -- I. Seeing the Sacred in Comics -- Chapter One: Writing the Sacred in Craig Thompson's Habibi -- Chapter Two: God's Comics: The Hebrew Alphabet as Graphic Narrative -- Chapter Three: The Ineffability of Form: Speaking and Seeing the Sacred in Tina's Mouth and The Rabbi's Cat -- Chapter Four: The Seven Traits of Fictoscripture and the Wormhole Sacred -- II. Reimagining Sacred Texts Through Comics -- Chapter Five: Many Comic Book Ramayanas: Idealizing and Opposing Rama as the Righteous God-King -- Chapter Six: The Ending of Mark as a Page-Turn Reveal -- Chapter Seven: Slaying a Biblical Archetype: 1 Samuel, Gauld's Goliath, and the New Midrash -- Chapter Eight: Transrendering Biblical Bodies: Reading Sex in The Action Bible and Genesis Illustrated -- III. Transfigured Comic Selves, Monsters, and the Body -- Chapter Nine: The Dark Phoenix as "Promising Monster": An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Marvel's X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga -- Chapter Ten: "Honor the Power Within": Daoist Wizards, Popular Culture, and Contemporary Japan's Spiritual Crisis -- Chapter Eleven: Joe Kubert's Yossel: April 19, 1943: Faith and Art History's Precedents -- IV. The Everyday Sacred in Comics -- Chapter Twelve: Urban Revelation in Paul Madonna's Postsecular Comics -- Chapter Thirteen: The Common Place: The Poetics of the Pedestrian in Kevin Huizenga's Walkin' -- Chapter Fourteen: Marvel's Fallen Son and Making the Ordinary Sacred -- Chapter Fifteen: Will Eisner: Master of Graphic Wisdom -- About the Contributors -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1496819233 |