{"product_id":"arguing-comics-literary-masters-on-a-popular-medium-9781578066872","title":"Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeet Heer | Kent Worcester\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Popular Culture - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Art Spiegelman's \u003cem\u003eMaus\u003c\/em\u003e-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet those who write about the comics often assume analysis of the medium didn't begin until the cultural studies movement was underway. \u003cem\u003eArguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eKrazy Kat\u003c\/em\u003e, to Irving Howe, who fretted about Harold Gray's \u003cem\u003eLittle Orphan Annie\u003c\/em\u003e, this volume shows that comics have provided a key battleground in the culture wars for over a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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 communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArguing Comics\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47613663051927,"sku":"9781578066872","price":2444.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781578066872.webp?v=1775086943","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/arguing-comics-literary-masters-on-a-popular-medium-9781578066872","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}