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Heer, Jeet and Kent Worcester, eds. Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium. Studies in Popular Culture. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2004. Added by: joachim (7/20/09, 1:34 AM) Last edited by: joachim (3/29/10, 10:39 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 1578066867 BibTeX citation key: Heer2004a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, Popular culture Creators: Heer, Worcester Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) |
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When Art Spiegelman's “Maus”—a two-part graphic novel about the Holocaust—won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, comics scholarship grew increasingly popular and notable. The rise of “serious” comics has generated growing levels of interest as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals continue to explore the history, aesthetics, and semiotics of the comics medium. Yet those who write about the comics often assume analysis of the medium didn't begin until the cultural studies movement was underway. “Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium” brings together nearly two dozen essays by major writers and intellectuals who analyzed, embraced, and even attacked comic strips and comic books in the period between the turn of the century and the 1960s. From e.e. cummings, who championed George Herriman's “Krazy Kat,” to Irving Howe, who fretted about Harold Gray's “Little Orphan Annie,” this volume shows that comics have provided a key battleground in the culture wars for over a century. With substantive essays by Umberto Eco, Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler, Gilbert Seldes, Dorothy Parker, Irving Howe, Delmore Schwartz, and others, this anthology shows how all of these writers took up comics-related topics as a point of entry into wider debates over modern art, cultural standards, daily life, and mass communications. “Arguing Comics” shows how prominent writers from the Jazz Age and the Depression era to the heyday of the New York Intellectuals in the 1950s thought about comics and, by extension, popular culture as a whole. Table of Contents Sidney Fairfield: From The tyranny of the pictorial Annie Russell Marble: From The reign of the spectacular Ralph Bergengren: From The humor of the colored supplement Thomas Mann: Introduction to Frans Masereel, Passionate journey: a novel told in 165 woodcuts Gilbert Seldes: The Krazy Kat that walks by himself e. e. cummings: A foreword to Krazy Dorothy Parker: A mash note to Crockett Johnson Clement Greenberg: Steig's cartoons: review of All embarrassed by William Steig Clement Greenberg: Limits of common sense: review of Years of wrath: A cartoon history, 1931–1945 by David Low Irving Howe: Notes on mass culture Delmore Schwartz: Masterpieces as cartoons Robert Warshow: Woofed with dreams Robert Warshow: Paul, the horror comics, and Dr. Wertham Harold Rosenberg: The labyrinth of Saul Steinberg Manny Farber: Comic strips Walter J. Ong: Mickey Mouse and Americanism Walter J. Ong: Bogey sticks for pogo men Marshall McLuhan: From The mechanical bride: folklore of industrial man Marshall McLuhan: Comics: Mad vestibule to TV Gershon Legman: From Love and death: A study in censorship Leslie Fiedler: The middle against both ends Donald Phelps: Over the cliff Donald Phelps: Reprise: ‘Love and death’ C.L.R. James: C.L.R. James on comic strips C.L.R. James: Letter to Daniel Bell Umberto Eco: The myth of superman Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |