‘An altered view regarding the relationship between dreams and reality’: magic, politics and the comics medium in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow’s Providence

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‘An altered view regarding the relationship between dreams and reality’: magic, politics and the comics medium in Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow’s Providence

Alan Moore reports that, through researching Providence, he ‘became more fully acquainted with academic literary criticism’ (Moore and Green 2016) and the extensive evidence of research throughout the series supports this claim. In this article, I argue that Providence uses the comics form to assert...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Green, Matthew J.A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Intellect 2017
Subjects:	Alan Moore H.P. Lovecraft adaptation studies and comics studies literature and politics literature and history postmodernism
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51189/

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