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Gavaler, Chris and Nathaniel Goldberg. "How Stan Lee made history: Narrative revision, fictional metaphysics, philosophical semantics." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2024): 1–19. Added by: joachim (12/6/24, 9:18 AM) Last edited by: joachim (12/6/24, 9:20 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2024.2423751 BibTeX citation key: Gavaler2024 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Lee. Stan, Marvel, Narratology, Philosophy, Seriality, Superhero, USA Creators: Gavaler, Goldberg Collection: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics |
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Lee revised earlier stories with later ones to produce the single fictional history of Marvel Comics. We draw three substantive philosophical lessons, which generalise beyond Lee. First, there are four kinds of ways that comics (and texts generally) can be revised. They can be continued. They can be restarted. They can be corrected. And such continuations, restarts, and corrections can be rejected. Second, each of those four kinds can be explained by a particular metaphysics of possible worlds, which in turn gives reason to support a particular metaphysics of fiction. And third, each of those four kinds requires at least one of two different philosophies of language concerning proper names.
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