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 -- COMICS AND Sacred Texts -- Title -- 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: | 149681925X |