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This book explores a number of Alan Moore's works in various forms, including comics, performance, short prose and the novel, and presents a scholarly study of these texts. It offers additional readings to argue for a politically charged sense of Moore's position within the Gothic tradition, investigates surreal Englishness in The Bojeffries Saga, and discusses the doppelganger in Swamp Thing and From Hell. Radical environmental activism can be conceived as a Gothic politics invoking the malevolent spectre of a cataclysmic eco-apocalypse. The book presents Christian W. Schneider's treatment of the apocalyptic in Watchmen and a reassessment of the significance of liminality from the Gothic tradition in V for Vendetta. It explores the relationship between Moore's work and broader textual traditions, placing particular emphasis on the political and cultural significance of intertextual relationships and adaptations. A historically sensitive reading of From Hell connects Moore's concern with the urban environment to his engagement with a range of historical discourses. The book elucidates Moore's treatment of the superhero in relation to key Gothic novels such as The Castle of Otranto and presents an analysis of the nexus of group politics and survival in Watchmen. The book also engages in Moore's theories of art, magic, resurrections, and spirits in its discourse A Small Killing, A Disease of Language, and the Voice of the Fire. It also explores the insight that his adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft, which are laced with heterocosms and bricolage, can yield for broader understandings of his forays into the occult.
Prometheas, and that culminates in a return to traumatic origins with the schism between the eastern and western versions of the goddess. These are but a few examples of doubles in Moore’s oeuvre. As a matter of fact, once one opens the pages of any one of the writer’s works, it is difficult not to find instances where a doubling strategy is at work. Moore’s doppelgängers largely
thus manages to pursue an aesthetic double strategy of movere (in the rhetorical sense) and of initiating a conscious discourse on historicity. Self-consciously performing its own literariness and thereby defending the aesthetic against the usurpations of history, it rises above being a mere mirror of contemporary discourses informing its rewriting of the classic story
and his continued relevance. For this purpose, I begin by describing the paratextual and supplementary materials of the 1598 and 1602 editions. This is followed by a discussion of how these materials create a framework for early modern readers to regard Chaucer as an author firmly situated in the past but nevertheless still worth reading. The final section analyses how this double strategy of Speght’s is exemplified in the way in which his editions frame the relationship between Chaucer and Spenser as an imaginary
autonomy for the regional federations in the electoral procedure. Fifty-four full gauche plurielle lists and five partial ones were entered. The 37 other lists presented by the Greens were the so-called ‘Green and open lists’. In all, they won 5.6 per cent (Boy and Villalba, 1999). The map of the ecologists’ results reflect this double strategy. The results of the Green lists are less good than those of the ecologists in 1992 (Greens plus GE plus other ecology lists) but only just below that of the 1992 Green lists on their own (Figures 4.3 and 4.4). In terms of
, Heinz-Christian Strache, became vice-chancellor. In the coalition deal both parties had agreed to share power almost equally. 8 It was not politics but a scandal which brought this government down on 18 May 2019. 9 The Austrian example shows that a strategy of accepting far-right populist parties as coalition partners, rather than “taming the dragon,” can backfire. When the parties are in government they can temporarily moderate their radical stances but – back in opposition – they quickly re-radicalize. Populist parties in government normally also use a double
social and financial access to Ann Walker. Indeed, people not only permitted but even encouraged this daringly subversive relationship to flower fast. Within this atmosphere of silence, Anne Lister devised a double strategy to ensure that no one—beyond her own Aunt Anne—would know of the affair or be able to block her access to Ann Walker and her fortune. Anyone unwise enough to interfere would have to be dealt with; Ann Walker would have to be isolated from any trouble-makers—notably, of course, the two trustees, Henry Edwards and William
thought Bonanza was live, so there is a sort of duty to try to get it right. (Interviewee 5) In some cases public ignorance was defended as necessary, though this can still be regarded as strategic in that it places the speaker as able to process appalling horrors in a way that most cannot. In one case (Interviewee 2) it went further, effectively infantilising the audience by claiming that the bowdlerised conflict reporting that Western audiences see allows them to ‘feel better about themselves’. In any case, this double strategy is difficult to negotiate, requiring as
claimed to have read Radcliffe’s novels while still a child, opened his career with a strong Gothic flourish, offering such works as The Double and The Landlady (1847). 19 It has been claimed that the narrative logic of The Double itself pursues a double strategy, provoking indecision asto ‘whether the “substance“ of the story is a fantastic reality or a narrated phantasm’ (Lachmann 1997 : 305). However, Dostoevsky’s own
1997:63 ff., 114 ff.). To get acceptance for this double strategy, however, proponents of ecological modernisation must convince industry and the public that this is a ‘win-win’ solution dissolving the perceived conflict between economic growth and environmental protection (Cohen 1998:150). Using language that harmonises sustainability with orthodox economic imperatives, politicians preach that ‘pollution prevention pays’, bringing industry to find anticipatory development of 2579Ch1 12/8/03 12 11:46 AM Page 12 Sweden and ecological governance green technology