Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.

Details

Additional Authors

• Heer, Jeet.
• Worcester, Kent, 1959-

Description

1 online resource (xxiii, 176 p.)

Uniform Title

Arguing comics (Online)

Subject

• Comic books, strips, etc > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxiii) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

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.

LCCN

2004012865

OCLC

ssj0000412078

Title

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

Imprint

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxiii) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Heer, Jeet.

Worcester, Kent, 1959-