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ByHougaard Winterbach,Technikon Pretoria. Department of Fine and Applied Arts

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“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” –Dr. Seuss

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The thesis demonstrates that the mythological hero who appears in myth, legend and folkore has resurfaced in the twentieth century as the American comic book superhero. A history and definition of comic books serves to provide a context for the study. The concept of myth and its functions is also discussed.

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ByJeffrey A. Brown

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about politics, gender, ethnicity, patriotism and consumerism after the events of 9/11. Superheroes have long been agents of hegemony, fighting for abstract ideals of justice while overall perpetuating the American status quo. Yet at the same time, the book explores how the genre has also been utilized to question and critique these dominant cultural assumptions.

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ByAngela Ndalianis

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“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.” -W.H. Auden

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Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that consume them, their formulas, conventions, and narrative worlds have altered to follow suit, injecting new, unpredictable and more challenging characterizations that engage ravenous readers who increasingly demand more.

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ByJohn Sandford

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” -Cicero

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Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of |pure reading pleasure| (Booklist) Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word |moribund| might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: |I'll Do What I Can|) and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those pilgrims needed food, shelter, all kinds of crazy things, right? They'd all get rich! What could go wrong? When the dead body shows up, they find out, and that's only the beginning of their troubles--and Virgil Flowers'--as they are all about to discover all too soon.

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ByHenry James

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“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” –Dr. Seuss

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This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of James's classic 1898 short novel along with critical essays that read |The Turn of the Screw| from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Two of the six essays are new to the second edition, as is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.

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ByHarvey Pekar,Paul Buhle

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“My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” –Abraham Lincoln

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Transforms sixteen short oral histories originally published in |Working| into graphic novel vignettes, including stories from a stock broker, a labor organizer, a proofreader, a gravedigger, a mail carrier, and a jazz musician.

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ByMark Sullivan

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“A book worth reading is worth buying.” -John Ruskin

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Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed with music, food, and girls--but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier--a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler's left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich's most mysterious and powerful commanders. Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share. Fans of All the Light We Cannot See, The Nightingale, and Unbroken will enjoy this riveting saga of history, suspense, and love.