[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book reviewer desired Romanticism in Comics

[Mike Rhode]

The book has been claimed. Thanks to all.

Mike

On Wed, Dec 7, 2022, 12:12 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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>  *Romanticism in Comics: Faith, Myth, and Mood
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rit.edu/press/romanticism-comics?fbclid=IwAR041qHwSyQQnY5-_5iiqDVAN4HdJfWk_yR-P97w-SfS3rrVVd6xG3lkk7M__;!!KGKeukY!339lUM8G8qnNMUVQi5TKhn00urzXqxR0v3IAGzS7POKJf6lGpIYIssgXBDkMtTSFa-CUW8HG1Z6Dc8qqnhzK6a13YrY$ >*
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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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