Islandology: Bakhtin & Animalese

Weā€™re going to be talking about a few terms from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, a 20th century Russian literary critic and semiotician. First of all, ā€œheteroglossia.ā€ Heteroglossia is:  ā€œthe base condition governing the operation of meaning in any utterance. It is that which insures the primacy of context over text. At any given time,…

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Robots, Teens, and Other Soul-Sucking Monsters this Week in Marvel Minutiae!

Hello friends and readers and welcome to another week of Marvel Minutiae. We have a true hodge-podge this week as newcomer Ian Gregory looks into 2020 Machine Man while our two esteemed editors Chris and Zack dig into returning favorites Valkyrie: Jane Foster and Runaways! 2020 Machine Man  #1 Iā€™m an X-Men fan, which means…

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