Secret Identity Reader

By (author): Richard Harrison, Lee Easton

Comic-book superheroes have risen from their newsprint beginnings to dominate films, infiltrate the literary establishment, and become an integral part of popular culture. Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death, and the Superhero is a collaboration between two authors who investigate, and often disagree on, key facets of the superhero character and storyline. Masculinity, origin stories and the problem of the side kick are all fair game in this wide-ranging discussion, which also considers the superhero’s place in a post-9/11 world and considers why these characters keep dying and coming back to life.

AUTHOR

Richard Harrison

Richard Harrison is the author of 5 books of poetry including Hero of the Play: 10th Anniversary Edition, and Big Breath of a Wish which won the City of Calgary/W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and was a finalist for the Governor-Generals Award for Poetry for 1999. Richards poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. His essays as well as writings on his work have appeared in several academic publications as well as in The Globe and Mail, The Manchester Guardian and The New York Times. Richard lives in Calgary with his wife Lisa and their children, Emma and Keeghan, and he teaches English and Creative Writing at Mount Royal College.

AUTHOR

Lee Easton

Lee Easton is the head of the English department at Mount Royal University in Alberta. Richard Harrison is the author of both poetry and non-fiction and also teaches English at Mount Royal.

Reviews

“It is a great relief to read a book as thoughtful, intelligent, well-informed, perceptive, and smart as Lee Easton and Richard Harrison’s Secret Identity Reader…. It’s a pleasure to see this kind of study done right (the word “properly” just doesn’t pack the colloquial wallop it needs).” – Canadian Literature

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Details

Dimensions:

392 Pages
9.00in * 6.04in * .93in
580.00gr

Published:

November 01, 2010

Publisher:

Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.

ISBN:

9781894987509

Book Subjects:

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary

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Language:

eng

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