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The literary Angel : essays on influences and traditions reflected in the Joss Whedon series
- Title
- The literary Angel : essays on influences and traditions reflected in the Joss Whedon series / edited by AmiJo Comeford and Tamy Burnett.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.
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- Description
- ix, 254 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book brings together essays which engage Angel as a text to be addressed within the wider fields of narrative and literature. It is divided into four sections. Each provides opportunities to examine a variety of characters, tropes, and literary nuances and influences throughout all seasons of the series and in the continuation in comic book form"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Los Angeles, city of story / AmiJo Comeford and Tamy Burnett -- Archetypes. Biting humor : harmony, parody, and the female vampire / Lorna Jowett -- Doyle as "the passing figure" and Nella Larsen's Passing / Angel Anderson -- Pylean idol : L.A.'s de(con)struction of a postmodern bard / Jennifer Hamilton -- Lilah Morgan : Whedon's legal femme fatale / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan -- Narrative & identity. Fred's captivity narrative : American contexts for (re)writing community identity from Mary Rowlandson to Angel / Tamy Burnett -- Feminist abuse survivor narratives in Angel and Sarah Daniels's Beside herself / Anika Stafford -- Numero cinco, border narratives, and Mexican cultural performance in Angel / Victoria Pettersen Lantz -- Theory & philosophy. (Re)negotiating the dystopian dilemma : Huxley, Orwell, and Angel / Mary Ellen Iatropoulos -- Angel vs. the Grand Inquisitor : Joss Whedon re-imagines Dostoevsky / Katia McClain -- Charles Gunn, Wolfram & Hart, and Baudrillard's theory of the simulacrum / K. Shannon Howard -- "It's a play on perspective" : a reading of Whedon's Illyria through Sartre's Nausea / Cynthea Masson -- Genre. Helping the helpless : medieval romance in Angel / AmiJo Comeford -- Whedon meets Sophocles : prophecy and Angel / Laurel Bowman -- Detective fiction/fictionality from Asmodeus to Angel / Alison Jaquet -- It (re-)started with a girl : the creative interplay between TV and comics in Angel : after the fall / Stacey Abbott.
- Call Number
- MWGT 10-6428
- ISBN
- 9780786446612 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786446617 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010015575
- OCLC
- YBP 2010015575
- Title
- The literary Angel : essays on influences and traditions reflected in the Joss Whedon series / edited by AmiJo Comeford and Tamy Burnett.
- Imprint
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Comeford, AmiJo, 1977-Burnett, Tamy, 1979-
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 10-6428