Chapter 4 The Savior and Nihilism
Abstract
This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and well-known materials seen in a new light. This is a multidisciplinary work aimed at both the specialist and the global reader, bringing together comic studies, philosophical criticism, and literary criticism in a debate on the fate of our current global civilization.
Keywords
Batman, Nietzsche, Foucault, Don Quixote, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Gothic novel, Dracula, nihilism, ressentimentDOI
10.4324/9781003362210-5ISBN
9781032423142, 9781032423159, 9781003362210Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2025Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Literature: history and criticism
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Philosophy
Popular culture