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Cates, Isaac. "On the Literary Use of Superheroes; or, Batman and Superman Fistfight in Heaven." American Literature 83. (2011): 831–57. Added by: joachim (4/3/15, 1:53 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1215/00029831-1437234 BibTeX citation key: Cates2011a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "David Boring", "Jimmy Corrigan", "Kingdom Come", "The Dark Knight Returns", "The Death Ray", "Watchmen", Alternative Comics, Clowes. Daniel, Gibbons. Dave, Miller. Frank, Moore. Alan, Reception, Ross. Alex, Superhero, United Kingdom, USA, Waid. Mark, Ware. Chris Creators: Cates Collection: American Literature |
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Cates’s essay considers the benefits and constraints of genre within superhero comics and recent alternative comics that make use of the figure of the superhero. Individual superheroes (Batman, Superman, Spider-Man) emerge as nearly allegorical figures for particular ideas or ideologies; the figure of the superhero more generally is also figured in these works as a symbol of arrested maturity, both within the fictions and within a larger metafiction about the genre. Works discussed in detail include Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns (1986), Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen (1986–87), Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s Kingdom Come (1997), Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan (2000), and Daniel Clowes’s David Boring (2002) and “The Death Ray” (2004).
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