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Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium

by Jeet Heer (Editor), Kent Worcester (Editor)

Other authors: Ralph Bergengren (Contributor), e.e. cummings (Contributor), Umberto Eco (Contributor), Sidney Fairfield (Contributor), Manny Farber (Contributor) — 15 more, Leslie Fiedler (Contributor), Clement Greenberg (Contributor), Irving Howe (Contributor), CLR James (Contributor), Gershon Legman (Contributor), Thomas Mann (Contributor), Annie Russell Marble (Contributor), Marshall McLuhan (Contributor), Walter J. Ong (Contributor), Dorothy Parker (Contributor), Donald Phelps (Contributor), Harold Rosenberg (Contributor), Delmore Schwartz (Contributor), Gilbert Seldes (Contributor), Robert Warshow (Contributor)

Series: Studies in Popular Culture

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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 majo… (more)

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741.5The arts › Graphic arts and decorative arts › Drawing & drawings › Cartoons, Caricatures, Comics

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PN6710.A84Language and Literature › Literature (General) › Literature (General) › Collections of general literature › Comic books, strips, etc.

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