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The Structure of Tezuka’s Phoenix
Tezuka, Osamu. Phoenix (12 volumes). Viz, 2003-2008. I’ve read a lot of Osamu Tezuka’s work over the years, from early Viz issues of Black Jack through to most of the releases from Vertical (Buddha, Dororo, MW, Kirohito) and even a French translation of one of his shorter series (Ayako). I’d rank many of them very [...]
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Rohmer’s Style
As regards content, the persistence of certain key antinomies structuring all his work has already been noted [this is from the Conclusion of the book]. While these originate in an underlying opposition between the temporal and the eternal, the human and the divine, the material and the spiritual, they are realized in a variety of [...]
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Mythical Method
In using the myth, in manipulating a continuous parallel between contemporaneity and antiquity, Mr Joyce is pursuing a method which others must pursue after him. They will not be imitators, any more than the scientist who uses the discoveries of an Einstein in pursuing his own, independent, further investigations. It is simply a way of [...]