Watchmen as Literature

Watchmen as Literature
Author: Sara J. Van Ness
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2014-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786490071

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Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary criticism since its 1986 initial appearance in installments. This work explores the graphic novel’s reception in both popular and scholarly arenas and how the conceptual relationship between images and words affects the reading experience. Other topics include heroism as a stereotype, the hero’s journey, the role of the narrator, and the way in which the graphic layout manipulates the reader’s perception of time and space. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.


Watchmen as Literature
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Sara J. Van Ness
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-29 - Publisher: McFarland

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Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary criticism since its 1986 initial appearance in installments. Thi
Watchmen as Literature
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: Sara J. Van Ness
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-08 - Publisher: McFarland

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Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary criticism since its 1986 initial appearance in installments. Thi
Watchmen and Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: William Irwin
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-04 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the S
Watchmen (2019 Edition)
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Alan Moore
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-18 - Publisher: DC Comics

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Soon to be an HBO original series, Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore, presents a world where the mere presence of America
Considering Watchmen
Language: en
Pages: 147
Authors: Andrew Hoberek
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-31 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen has been widely hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel. It was not only aesthetically groundbreak