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Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Dawid Bunikowski and Alan D. Hemmings (eds.), Philosophies of Polar Law (New York: Routledge, 2021)
No full textA review of the book: Dawid Bunikowski and Alan D. Hemmings (eds.), Philosophies of Polar Law (New York: Routledge, 2021
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Alan D. Pearlman
No full textAlan D. Pearlman holds a box labeled "An Introduction to Electronic Music Synthesizers" during Intersession 197
Little coral queen [music] /
No full textFor voice and piano.; Caption title.; "The captivating & haunting song from William Anderson & John F. Sheridan's mammoth Xmas pantomime "Cinderella"--Cover.; "Portrayed with phenomenal success by Miss Olive Sinclair". Port. featured--Cover.; Publication date approximated from p. 6 of The Brisbane Courier, Thursday 23 January 1908: "New music. Three songs- 'Little coral queen,' 'Black canary),' and 'The old gum tree"-are to hand from Messrs. D. Davis and Co., Queen Street. Words and music are the work of Alan M. Rattray and L.L. Howarde, and they are worthy additions to Davis's Popular Sixpenny Edition."; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn5980656
Thompson, Alan D R, VX21764
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/421313Surname: THOMPSON. Given Name(s) or Initials: ALAN D R. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX21764. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 47240.246028
Item: [2016.0049.53574] "Thompson, Alan D R, VX21764
Completing the Invention of Personal Computing = Culminar la invención de la informática personal : Discursos pronunciados en el Acto de Investidura del profesor D. Alan C. Kay como Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Murcia
No full textIncluye Laudatio in honorem del doctor Alan C. Kay por Jesús García Molin
Klaus Dodds, Alan D Hemmings and Peder Roberts (eds.), Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017)
No full textA review of the book: Klaus Dodds, Alan D Hemmings and Peder Roberts (eds.), Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica (London: Edward Elgar, 2017, pp. 610 & xx, 210 GBP hardback)
My black canary [music] : a trump card of society /
No full textFor voice and piano.; Cover title.; "Sung by Miss Marie Eaton & full chorus in Wm. Anderson & John F. Sheridan's ... pantomime Cinderella."; "The dashing pantomime march song hit."; "Writers of 'The boy in the sailor cap', 'Sister', 'It only makes me love you more & more'."; Publication date approximated from p. 6 of The Brisbane Courier, Thursday 23 January 1908: "New music. Three songs- 'Little coral queen,' 'Black canary,' and 'The old gum tree"-are to hand from Messrs. D. Davis and Co., Queen Street. Words and music are the work of Alan M. Rattray and L.L. Howarde, and they are worthy additions to Davis's Popular Sixpenny Edition."; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn1398821.Cinderella. My black canary. Vocal scor
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
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