American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion
American Comics, Literary Theory, and Religion
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Author(s): Lewis, A. David
ISBN No.: 9781137463609
Pages: 208
Year: 201411
Format: E-Book
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Just as often as superheroes journey into the afterlife, they also return from it. Their surprising immortality has created its own set of storytelling rules and expectations; it also has come to influence their secular readership in new interreligious investigations of narrative character and personal selfhood. Unlocking a new and overdue model for reading comic books, this unique volume explores religious interpretations of popular comic book superheroes such as the Green Lantern and the Hulk. A. David Lewis argues that the superhero subgenre offers a hermeneutic for those interested in integrating mutiplicity into religious practices and considerations of the afterlife.


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