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Reading Art Spiegelman (Hardcover): Philip Smith

Reading Art Spiegelman (Hardcover)

Philip Smith; Series edited by Randy Duncan, Matthew J Smith

Series: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies

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The horror of the Holocaust lies not only in its brutality but in its scale and logistics; it depended upon the machinery and logic of a rational, industrialised, and empirically organised modern society. The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman's comics all identify deeply-rooted madness in post-Enlightenment society. Spiegelman maintains, in other words, that the Holocaust was not an aberration, but an inevitable consequence of modernisation. In service of this argument, Smith offers a reading of Spiegelman's comics, with a particular focus on his three main collections: Breakdowns (1977 and 2008), Maus (1980 and 1991), and In the Shadow of No Towers (2004). He draws upon a taxonomy of terms from comic book scholarship, attempts to theorize madness (including literary portrayals of trauma), and critical works on Holocaust literature.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
Release date: December 2015
First published: 2016
Authors: Philip Smith
Series editors: Randy Duncan • Matthew J Smith
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-95676-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Illustration & commercial art > Comic book & cartoon art
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
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LSN: 1-138-95676-7
Barcode: 9781138956766

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