Warren Ellis Frankensteins Womb

Author : Warren Ellis
Publisher : Avatar Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592910755
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warren Ellis' Frankenstein's Womb Hardcover written by Warren Ellis and published by Avatar Press. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account of Mary Shelley's terrifying real encounter with a creature at Castle Frankenstein, years before she penned her novel, as presented by acclaimed graphic novelist Warren Ellis. In the weird darkness of 1816, when a volcanic winter yielded a "year without a summer," Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin began writing the novel Frankenstein on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. But the true story of Frankenstein began months earlier when Mary, alongside future husband Percy Shelley and stepsister Clair Clairmont, approached a strange castle in the German wilderness while en route to Switzerland. Castle Frankenstein, some one hundred years earlier, had been home to Johann Conrad Dippel, whose experiments included the independent invention of nitroglycerin, a distillation of the elixir of life, and the transfer of a live soul into an awful accretion of human body parts. Mary never spoke of having entered the real Castle Frankenstein, but she did, and was never the same again... because something was haunting that tower, and Mary met it there! Fear, death and alchemy: the modern age is created here, in lost moments in a ruined castle on a day never recorded.

Author : Warren Ellis
Publisher : Avatar Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592910403
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warren Ellis' Crecy written by Warren Ellis and published by Avatar Press. This book was released on 2003-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vastly outnumbered and surrounded, the English army has to stand and fight against overwhelming French forces in Crecy, France. On August 26, 1346, modern warfare changed forever... and this how it happened. A highly-trained but under-equipped army invades another country due to the perceived threat to home security. The army conducts shock-and-awe raids designed to terrify the populace. This army is soon driven to ground and vastly outnumbered. The English army has to stand and fight in Crecy, France. On August 26, 1346, modern warfare changed forever. This is the story of England's greatest battle, as told by award-winning graphic novelist Warren Ellis.

Author : Daniel Stein
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441185232
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives written by Daniel Stein and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyze the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasingly interconnected and globalizing world. Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives - from popular comic book serials and graphic novels to manga - to cross national and cultural boundaries, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives addresses a previously marginalized area in comics studies. By placing graphic narratives in the global flow of cultural production and reception, the book investigates controversial representations of transnational politics, examines transnational adaptations of superhero characters, and maps many of the translations and transformations that have come to shape contemporary comics culture on a global scale.

Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316760464
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein written by Andrew Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume relates Frankenstein to various social, literary, scientific and historical contexts, and outlines how critical theories such as ecocriticism, posthumanism, and queer theory generate new and important discussion in illuminating ways. The volume also explores the cultural afterlife of the novel including its adaptations in various media such as drama, film, television, graphic novels, and literature aimed at children and young adults. Written by an international team of leading experts, the essays provide new insights into the novel and the various critical approaches which can be applied to it. The volume is an essential guide to students and academics who are interested in Frankenstein and who wish to know more about its complex literary history.

Author : Warren Ellis
Publisher : Avatar Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592910489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warren Ellis Aetheric Mechanics written by Warren Ellis and published by Avatar Press. This book was released on 2004-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edwardian-era Steampunk tale of Great Britain's greatest detective, Sax Raker, whose investigation into a mysterious, vanishing killer threatens to unravel the entire world around him. The year is 1907, and Britain has entered into a terrifying war with Ruritania, whose strange metal planes darken the skies, and whose monstrous war engines cast looming shadows from across the channel. Doctor Robert Watcham, lately returned to London from the front, makes his homecoming to Dilke Street. There lives his old friend and England's greatest amateur detective, Sax Raker. Even as his beloved city prepares for war, Raker is himself about to embark on the strangest (and, perhaps, the most important) investigation of his career: the case of the man who wasn't there. Is the mysterious, vanishing killer, at last, evidence for Raker's long-held belief in a secret criminal mastermind? Is it some apparition uniquely belonging to this city, a place that seems to have lost all semblance of sense two years ago? Or do all the signs point to something much, much worse?

Author : Francesca Saggini
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684480604
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transmedia Creatures written by Francesca Saggini and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from “below”) that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Francesco-Alessio Ursini
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629366
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Future in Comics written by Francesco-Alessio Ursini and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page. The contributors investigate portrayals in different stylistic traditions--manga, bande desinees--from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The picture that emerges documents the elaborate storylines and complex universes comics creators have been crafting for decades.

Author : Matthew Green
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152610184X
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition written by Matthew Green and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study to address Moore’s significance to the Gothic, this volume is also the first to provide in-depth analyses of his spoken-word performances, poetry and prose, as well as his comics and graphic novels. The essays collected here identify the Gothic tradition as perhaps the most significant cultural context for understanding Moore’s work, providing unique insight into its wider social and political dimensions as well as addressing key theoretical issues in Gothic Studies, Comics Studies and Adaptation Studies. Scholars, students and general readers alike will find fresh insights into Moore’s use of horror and terror, homage and parody, plus allusion and adaptation. The international list of contributors includes leading researchers in the field and the studies presented here enhance the understanding of Moore’s works while at the same time exploring the ways in which these serve to advance a broader appreciation of Gothic aesthetics.

Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107086191
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to `Frankenstein' written by Andrew Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen original essays by leading scholars on Mary Shelley's novel provide an introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts.

Author : Warren Ellis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840237245
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orbiter written by Warren Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From best-selling author Warren Ellis (Planetary, Transmetropolitan) and acclaimed artist Colleen Doran (Sandman, A Distant Soil) comes an all-new SF graphic novel Ten years ago, the Space Shuttle Venture disappeared from Earth's orbit, taking a crew of seven with it. Now it has returned with its remaining crewman - an insane pilot - and instrumentation that wasn't on the shuttle when it lifted off. This is the story of what happened to the Venture's crew, where the shuttle went... and what it means for an Earth that's given up hope of walking amongst the stars. From an extraordinary creative team, Orbiter is a mesmerising story of first contact and its inevitable consequences, and is destined to be a classic