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"Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today's popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations. Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. She highlights the persistence of recurrent Romantic features through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics and draws out their implications. Aspects covered include the dark Romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist, his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle as well as excessive emotions, and above all, the monster's ambiguity and rebelliousness. Ahmed highlights each Romantic theme through close readings of well-known but often overlooked comics, including Enki Bilal's Monstre tetralogy, Jim O'Barr's The Crow, and Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, as well as the iconic comics series Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Mike Mignola's Hellboy. In blurring the otherness of the monster, these protagonists retain the exaggeration and uncontrollability of all monsters while incorporating Romantic characteristics"-- "The first book to explore the lasting influence of Romanticism on contemporary comics monsters"--

Comic books, strips, etc --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Monsters in popular culture. --- Romanticism. --- History and criticism. --- Psychological aspects. --- Comics & Graphic Novels. --- 82-931 --- 070.84 --- 741.5 --- 741.5 Spotprenten. Karikaturen. Cartoons. Striptekeningen. Satirische tekeningen --- Spotprenten. Karikaturen. Cartoons. Striptekeningen. Satirische tekeningen --- 070.84 Comics. Stripverhalen--(in de krant) --- Comics. Stripverhalen--(in de krant) --- 82-931 Stripverhaal --- Stripverhaal --- Monsters in comics. --- Romanticism in comics.

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Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact, especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives in their physical and metaphorical manifestations, this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.

Culture --- Cultural property. --- Study and teaching. --- Etude et enseignement --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Collective memory and literature. --- Bandes dessinées --- Mémoire collective --- History --- Histoire --- Dans la littérature --- Memory in literature. --- Collective memory. --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Etude et enseignement. --- Histoire. --- Dans la littérature. --- History. --- 82-931 --- 070.84 --- 741.5 --- 741.5 Spotprenten. Karikaturen. Cartoons. Striptekeningen. Satirische tekeningen --- Spotprenten. Karikaturen. Cartoons. Striptekeningen. Satirische tekeningen --- 070.84 Comics. Stripverhalen--(in de krant) --- Comics. Stripverhalen--(in de krant) --- 82-931 Stripverhaal --- Stripverhaal --- Bandes dessinées --- Mémoire collective --- Étude et enseignement --- Dans la littérature.