Comic connections : building character and theme /

This book is designed to help teachers from middle school through college find exciting new strategies to help students develop their literacy skills.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Eckard, Sandra (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
Subjects:	Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism. Comic books, strips, etc. > Themes, motives. Comic books, strips, etc., in education. Character in literature. Graphic novels > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: building character and theme / Sandra Eckard
Tales and dreams: Neil Gaiman's the Sandman and critical and creative thinking in the English classroom / Carmela Delia Lanza
Marvelous families, epic dysfunction: combining Norse mythology, the Thor comics, and Marvel films in a general education literature course / Holly M. Wells
Flip the hero script: Kamala Khan and Katniss Everdeen search for agency, purpose, and identity / Mary T. Christel
Marvel's civil war: interrogating vigilantism and the superhero myth in the post-9/11 era / Jane Coulter, Keith Mccleary
From Marvel's Daredevil to Netflix's Defenders: justice is blind? / P.l. Thomas
Comics and philosophy: Batman and the nature of evil / Jon Ostenson
Discovering and discussing tall tale elements through Lemke's tall great American folktales: the comic anthology / Jennifer Toney
Finding the panther: Marvel comics' Black Panther socio-historical roots and their influences on character development / Scott Honeycutt, Karin Keith, Renee Rice-Moran, Lashay Jennings, Huili Hong
21st century creature: analyzing Frankenstein in the medium of comics / Jeffrey hayes
Word from Krypton: analyzing the character of Superman / Richard Harrison.