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Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man
Author(s): Robert Moses Peaslee (Editor), Robert G. Weiner
- Publisher: McFarland
- Publication Date: June 5, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 271 pages
- ISBN-10: 0786446277
- ISBN-13: 9780786446278
Book Description
This volume collects a wide-ranging sample of fresh analyses of Spider-Man. It traverses boundaries of medium, genre, epistemology and discipline in essays both insightful and passionate that move forward the study of one of the world’s most beloved characters. The editors have crafted the book for fans, creators and academics alike. Foreword by Tom DeFalco, with poetry and an afterword by Gary Jackson (winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize).
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About the Author
Robert G. Weiner is the popular culture librarian at Texas Tech University. His work has been published in the Journal of Popular Culture, Public Library Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, International Journal of Comic Art and Popular Music and Society and is the author/editor/coeditor of numerous books related to popular culture.