[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book reviewer desired Romanticism in Comics

[Mike Rhode]

US only i'm afraid as we're getting a print copy. Email me DIRECTLY w/ your
interest, and why you'd be a good choice please.

Mike
mrhode at gmail.com

 *Romanticism in Comics: Faith, Myth, and Mood
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> Here’s the short blurb on the back cover: “Comics studies scholars
> engaging comparative mythology tend to limit critical approaches to
> superhero fiction and classical and religious texts. Even the popular
> argument that superheroes are a ‘modern mythology’ typically does not
> venture outside these limitations. Tolkien’s legendarium, Lovecraft’s
> mythos, Tennyson’s revisions to Arthurian myth, and Blake’s mythology don’t
> quite fit the creative models that prevailing criticism considers in
> comparative studies. Nick Katsiadas explores a greater literary history of
> myth in comics in his examinations of Neil Gaiman’s *Sandman*, Alan Moore
> and J. H. Williams III’s *Promethea*, and Mike Carey and Peter Gross’s *The
> Unwritten.* The Romantics particularly used myth to highlight ideas about
> the value of imagination and creativity, and Katsiadas traces how these
> ways of thinking about literature and the arts persisted up through
> twentieth- and twenty-first-century comics. In this way, *Romanticism in
> Comics* helps us better understand comics’ greater literary history and,
> also, helps us reread and better situate Romanticism’s legacy in twentieth-
> and twenty-first-century art forms and ways of life.”
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