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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459371603321

Titolo

Arguing comics [[electronic resource] ] : literary masters on a popular medium / / edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2004

ISBN

1-282-91731-5

9786612917318

1-60473-588-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HeerJeet

WorcesterKent <1959->

Disciplina

741.5/09

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From "The tyranny of the pictorial" / Sidney Fairfield -- From "The reign of the spectacular" / Annie Russell Marble -- From "The humor of the colored supplement" / Ralph Bergengren -- Introduction to Frans Masereel, Passionate journey: a novel told in 165 woodcuts / Thomas Mann -- "The Krazy Kat that walks by himself" / Gilbert Seldes -- "A foreword to Krazy" / e. e. cummings -- "A mash note to Crockett Johnson" / Dorothy Parker -- "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" / Clement Greenberg -- "Notes on mass culture" / Irving Howe -- "Masterpieces as cartoons" / Delmore Schwartz -- "Woofed with dreams" / Robert Warshow -- "Paul, the horror comics, and Dr. Wertham" / Robert Warshow -- "The labyrinth of Saul Steinberg" / Harold Rosenberg -- "Comic strips" / Manny Farber -- "Comic strips" / Manny Farber -- "Mickey Mouse and Americanism" / Walter J. Ong -- "Bogey sticks for pogo men" / Walter J. Ong -- From The mechanical bride : folklore of industrial man / Marshall McLuhan -- "Comics: mad vestibule to TV" / Marshall McLuhan -- From Love and death: a study in censorship / Gershon Legman -- "The middle against both ends" /



Leslie Fiedler -- "Over the cliff" / Donald Phelps -- "Reprise: 'Love and death'" / Donald Phelps -- "C.L.R. James on comic strips" / C.L.R. James -- "Letter to Daniel Bell" / C.L.R. James -- "The myth of superman" / Umberto Eco.

Sommario/riassunto

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

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910160858703321

Autore

King-Hall Sir Stephen

Titolo

The Diary of a U-Boat Commander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Munchen : , : Liese, Andreas. OUTSIDE THE BOX, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-95676-515-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (109 p.)

Collana

The World at War Series

Soggetti

Submarine warfare

Naval history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall of Headley (21 January 1893 - 2 June 1966) was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright. He gained the rank of Commander in the service of the Royal Navy in 1928, before resigning in 1929. He wrote several plays between 1924 and 1940. He joined the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1929, having previously been awarded their



Gold Medal for his 1920 thesis on submarine warfare. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)