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Revision and the Superhero Genre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Revision and the Superhero Genre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
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This book argues that superhero revision offers new perspectives on
the theory and practice of revision in broader contexts, in
particular composition studies. Key developments in the history of
superhero and composition revision reveal that both are deeply
embedded in questions of narrative temporality. The book looks at
three unorthodox revision strategies: sideshadowing, in which
traditional tropes of superhero narratives are told with "new"
characters that clearly evoke traditional ones; excavation, the
reintegration and reinterpretation of elements and influences from
earlier texts that have been de-emphasized or written out of
continuity; and homodoxy, the narrative coexistence of inconsistent
elements culled from different versions of a character's textual
history. The ensuing cross-disciplinary exploration helps correct a
distorted stereotype of revision as a neutral mechanical process,
revealing it instead as a potent force operating across a spectrum
that ranges from restrictive adherence to orthodoxies, to radical
resistance against the primacy of tradition.
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