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Resource type: Book Language: en: English DOI: 10.1057/9781137463609 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-137-46560-3 BibTeX citation key: Lewis2014 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Fantastic Four", "Planetary", "Promethea", Cassaday. John, Character, Ellis. Warren, Moore. Alan, Narratology, Religion, Ricœur. Paul, Superhero, Todorov. Tzvetan, United Kingdom, USA, Williams III. J.H. Creators: Lewis Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (New York [etc.]) |
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Superheroes venture so frequently into the afterlife that the recurring conventions constitute a distinct subgenre. These generic elements can reassure readers of various preconceptions, or the new subgenre could mask alternate understandings of narrative character and the self. Superhero Afterlife links genre theorists’ (e.g. Paul Ricoeur, Tzvetan Todorov) audience models for selfhood to Helene Tallon Russell, J. Hillis Miller, and Karin Kukkonen warning against narrative characters being understood as whole and unified a priori when the idea of a multiple self better matches with the goals of religious pluralism and healthful self-understanding. Jeffery Burton Russell and Andrew Delbanco see Americans divesting from Augustinian models of singular selfhood. As H.T. Russell urges, this model may serve more as a relic than as a useful system for selfhood.
Table of Contents List of Figures (ix) Introduction (1) Notes (145) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |