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Ricker, Aaron. "The Third Side of the Coin: Constructing superhero comics culture as religious myth." Arc 43. (2015): 91–105. Added by: joachim (03/01/2019, 14:31) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed BibTeX citation key: Ricker2015 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Myth, Religion, Superhero Creators: Ricker Collection: Arc |
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The most common ways of reading superhero comics culture as a religious/mythopoeic expression are, to date, unfortunately little more than self-serving and self-fulfilling prophecies, which thereby turn out in the end to be critically self-limiting. Supports this contention by offering a three-step progression. First considers the “up” side of the coin: promoting superhero comics culture as a modern religious/mythopoeic expression; then the “down” side of the coin: interrogating superhero comics culture as a modern religious/mythopoeic expression; lastly, the third side of the coin: constructing superhero comics culture as a modern religious/mythopoeic expression.
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