TY - BOOK ID - 8453077 TI - Alan Moore : comics as performance, fiction as scalpel PY - 2009 SN - 9781604732122 9781604732139 1604732121 160473213X 9786612485305 1604734760 PB - Jackson University Press of Mississippi DB - UniCat KW - Moore, Alan, KW - Critique et interprétation KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Moore, Alan, --1953- --Criticism and interpretation. KW - Literature - General KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Moore, Alan KW - Great Britain KW - Drawing KW - Graphic artists KW - beeldverhalen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8453077 AB - Eclectic 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 ER -