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| Record Id: | 26744659 (Australian Library Collections) permalink |
| Title: | Comics as philosophy / edited by Jeff McLaughlin.
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| Online Resource: | Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004453.html
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| Edition: | 1st ed.
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| Published: | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
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| Description: | xix, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN: | 1578067944 (alk. paper)
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| LC Call Number: | PN6712
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| Dewey Number: | 741.5/09
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| Summary: | "Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels that exercise social realism, to European adventure classics."--BOOK JACKET.
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| Contents: | What if? : DC's crisis and Leibnizian possible worlds / Jeff McLaughlin -- Describing and discarding "comics" as an impotent act of philosophical rigor / Robert C. Harvey -- "No harm in horror" : ethical dimensions of the postwar comic book controversy / Amy Kiste Nyberg -- Truth be told : authorship and the creation of the black Captain America / Stanford W. Carpenter -- Plato, Spider-Man and the meaning of life / Jeremy Barris -- Modernity, race, and the American superhero / Aldo Regalado -- Deconstructing the hero / Iain Thomson -- Jean-Paul Sartre meets Enid Coleslaw : existential themes in Ghost World / Laura Canis and Paul Canis -- Making the abstract concrete : how a comic can bring to life the central problems of environmental philosophy / Kevin de Laplante -- The good government according to Tintin : long live old Europe? / Pierre Skilling -- Drawn into 9/11, but where have all the superheroes gone? / Terry Kading.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-235) and index.
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| Subjects: | Comic books, strips, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects. Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
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| Other Authors: | McLaughlin, Jeff, 1962-
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| Libraries that have this item: | Australian Catholic University. Banyo Library (QACU) (001570013) SP 741.507 M161 C<001570013> Curtin University of Technology. Curtin University Library (WCU) ((WCU)000584472) held Monash University. Monash University Library (VMOU) (2236519) GI-GEN 741.509 M161C 2005 State Library of NSW (NSL) R N741.509/ 8 State Library of Queensland (QSL) (QSL676765) 741.509 2005 State Library of Victoria (VSL) (1508785) held The University of Melbourne. The University Library (VU) (.b31780866) held University of Queensland Library. Social Sciences and Humanities Library (QU:SSAH) (b22584894) PN6712 .C58 2005
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