FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 15, 2007
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Keller receives new book contract
  
COLUMBUS, Miss. -- Dr. James Keller, professor of English, recently received a new book contract from McFarland for a work titled “V for Vendetta: Allegory and Intertext.”
   
The work examines the multiplicity of cultural references from which both the graphic novel and the film are constructed, references that include painting, music, literature, history, politics and medicine. The film includes an appropriation and parody of previously existing texts by Goethe, Dumas, Shakespeare, Shelley and many others.
   
The book will be completed in 2007 and released in 2008 and will be Keller's fifth monograph.
   
Keller chairs the Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy.