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On the edge of the panel : essays on comics criticism

Table of Contents: “…The Confrontation between the Classic and the Modern Gothic in The Swamp Thing by Len Wein and Alan Moore /…”
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Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition

Table of Contents: “…Front matter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- A note on references and quotations -- Dedication -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Monstrous politics -- Alan Moore and the Gothic tradition -- 'Soap opera of the paranormal': surreal Englishness and postimperial Gothic in The Bojeffries Saga -- A Gothic politics: Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and radical ecology -- Part II Gothic tropes -- 'Is that you, our Jack?'…”
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Dark directions : Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film by Phillips, Kendall R.

Table of Contents: “…Craven's gothic form: nightmares, screams, and monsters -- Gothic technologies: Serpent and the rainbow, Deadly friend, Swamp thing, Red eye, Shocker -- Gothic families: The people under the stairs, The hills have eyes, Last house on the left -- Desolate frontiers in the films of John Carpenter. …”
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Water Index Design Strategies for Drought, Flooding and Contamination. by McDowell, Seth

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- A Hydrological Tragedy in Three Acts -- Act One: The Rising -- People and the Rising Sea -- Catastrophe -- The Delta Works Project -- The Spectacle of Water and Machine: The ideologies at Work in the Bonnet Carre Spillway Openings of 1937 and 2011 -- Hydropolis -- Governors Island Park -- Connections on Uncertain Ground -- Aranzadi Park -- Swamp Thing: Smart Grid, Smarter Water Management in New Orleans -- Watersquare Benthemplein -- Act Two: The Contaminated -- The Bacteriological City and Its Discontents -- Bringing the Serpent's Tail Into the Serpents's Mouth: Edwin Chadwick and the "Sanitary Idea" in England -- Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill -- Whitney Water Purification Facility + Park -- Seeping Boundaries: Informal Infrastructures of Dirt, Demolition, and Sewage in the West Bank -- Dendritic Zoning: Establishing a New Urban Gradient in the Garden State -- A Green Sponge for a Water Resilient City: Qunli Stormwater Park -- Shanghai Houtan Park: Landscape as a Living Sistem -- Vitondale Reclamation Park -- Parallel Networks -- Water Core Home -- Detoxi-City -- Act Three: The Disappearing -- The Urban Spring: Formalizing the Water System of Los Angeles -- Reconstructing the Void: Owens Lake -- Draining the Oasis -- Sea Tree -- Winton Wetland Restoration -- Lima Beyond the Park -- Wash: Urban Hydrological Networks for Resilient Cultural Ecologies -- Immaterial Water.…”
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Plants and literature : essays in critical plant studies. by Laist, Randy

Table of Contents: “…Millais -- This is your brain on wheat: the psychology of the speculator in Frank Norris' The Pit -- Refusing form: a reading of art, Americanism, and feminism through plant imagery in Susan Glaspell's The Verge -- Surviving the city: resistance and plant life in Woolf's Jacob's Room and Barnes' Nightwood -- The smell of cottonwood leaves: plants and Tayo's Healing in Silko's Ceremony -- The Bible's paradise and Oryx and Crake's paradice: a comparison of the relationships between humans and nature -- Iconic/ironic greenery: the cultural cultivation of plants in Brecht Evens' The Making Of -- A return to transcendentalism in the twentieth century: emerging plant-sympathy in The Little Shop of Horrors -- Mean green machine: how the ecological politics of Alan Moore's Reimagination of Swamp Thing brought eco-consciousness to comics -- Reproducing plant bodies on the Great Plains.…”
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WWW Drawing : architectural drawing from pencil to pixel

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- A Hydrological Tragedy in Three Acts -- Act One: The Rising -- People and the Rising Sea -- Catastrophe -- The Delta Works Project -- The Spectacle of Water and Machine: The ideologies at Work in the Bonnet Carre Spillway Openings of 1937 and 2011 -- Hydropolis -- Governors Island Park -- Connections on Uncertain Ground -- Aranzadi Park -- Swamp Thing: Smart Grid, Smarter Water Management in New Orleans -- Watersquare Benthemplein -- Act Two: The Contaminated -- The Bacteriological City and Its Discontents -- Bringing the Serpent's Tail Into the Serpents's Mouth: Edwin Chadwick and the "Sanitary Idea" in England -- Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill -- Whitney Water Purification Facility + Park -- Seeping Boundaries: Informal Infrastructures of Dirt, Demolition, and Sewage in the West Bank -- Dendritic Zoning: Establishing a New Urban Gradient in the Garden State -- A Green Sponge for a Water Resilient City: Qunli Stormwater Park -- Shanghai Houtan Park: Landscape as a Living Sistem -- Vitondale Reclamation Park -- Parallel Networks -- Water Core Home -- Detoxi-City -- Act Three: The Disappearing -- The Urban Spring: Formalizing the Water System of Los Angeles -- Reconstructing the Void: Owens Lake -- Draining the Oasis -- Sea Tree -- Winton Wetland Restoration -- Lima Beyond the Park -- Wash: Urban Hydrological Networks for Resilient Cultural Ecologies -- Immaterial Water.…”
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Alan Moore : comics as performance, fiction as scalpel by Di Liddo, Annalisa, 1977-

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The Eye of the Mammoth : New and Selected Essays. by Harrigan, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Foreword by Nicholas Lemann; Part One: Music in the Desert; Morning Light; On the Edge; The Secret Life of the Beach; Going into the Desert; Isla del Padre; The Tiger Is God; The Bay; Swamp Thing; The Silver Kings; Part Two: Highways and Jungle Paths; The Roof of Eden; Feeling Flush; The Anger of Achilles; Rock and Sky; The Little Man's Road; My Igloo; A Secret Door; Part Three: The Shadow of History; The Temple of Destiny; The Man Nobody Knows; Comanche Midnight; Wolf House; The Last Days of David Crockett; Taking Care of Lonesome Dove; His Fostering Hand; The Eye of the Mammoth…”
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Alan Moore : comics as performance, fiction as scalpel by Di Liddo, Annalisa, 1977-

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Publishing from your PhD : negotiating a crowded jungle by Johnson, Nicola F., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…; 4 Flies, Gnats and Wasps: Negotiating the Gatekeepers; 5 The Night is Black: No Black or White in Academia; 6 Stamina is Needed for Survival: Choosing the Right Journal; 7 Fighting the Heat, Hunger and Thirst: Dealing with Rejection; 8 Thorny Bushes and Muddy Swamps: Things That Slow You Down.…”
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Alan Moore : conversations by Moore, Alan, 1953-

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Turn Me Loose : the Unghosting of Medgar Evers. by Walker, Frank X.

Table of Contents: “…: Answering the Call of Medgar Evers; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: DIXIE SUITE; What Kills Me; Ambiguity over the Confederate Flag; Rotten Fruit; Humor Me; The N-Word; Southern Sports; Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming I; I'd Wish I Was in Dixie Too; PART II: SOUTHERN DREAMS; Fire Proof; Listening to Music; Life Apes Art Apes Life: Byron De La Beckwith Reflects on Birth of a Nation; White of Way; Music, Niggers & Jews; Swamp Thing; Stand by Your Man; Husbandry.…”
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Comics and the U.S. South

Table of Contents: “…Of slaves and other swamp things : black southern history as comic book horror / Qiana J. …”
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Comics and the U.S. South

Table of Contents: “…Of slaves and other swamp things : black southern history as comic book horror / Qiana J. …”
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