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Maus Now

Art Spiegelman, Hillary Chute
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      A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street JournalIt is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his masterpiece Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, Maus Now is a new collection of essays that sees writers such as Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and others approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions.Offering translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus for the first time, this collection edited by American literary scholar Hillary Chute - an expert on comics and graphic narratives - assembles the world's best writing on this classic work of graphic testimony.'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker on Maus'No summary can do justice to Spiegelman's narrative skill' Adam Gopnik on Maus'Like all great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect' Philip Pullman on Maus
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Art Spiegelman, Hillary Chute EAN: 9780241509050 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 783 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-01-26 CITY: GENRE: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

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      c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Literary studies: general, The Holocaust, Second World War, Graphic novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction

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      ART SPIEGELMAN is a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus, which was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award. He lives in New York.HILLARY CHUTE is an American literary scholar and an expert on comics and graphic narratives. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University and the author or editor of seven titles on comics, including, most recently, her book, Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere. She is a comics and graphic novels columnist for The New York Times Book Review.
      A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street JournalIt is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his masterpiece Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, Maus Now is a new collection of essays that sees writers such as Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and others approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions.Offering translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus for the first time, this collection edited by American literary scholar Hillary Chute - an expert on comics and graphic narratives - assembles the world's best writing on this classic work of graphic testimony.'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker on Maus'No summary can do justice to Spiegelman's narrative skill' Adam Gopnik on Maus'Like all great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect' Philip Pullman on Maus
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Art Spiegelman, Hillary Chute EAN: 9780241509050 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 783 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-01-26 CITY: GENRE: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events WIDTH: 162 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Literary studies: general, The Holocaust, Second World War, Graphic novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction

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      ART SPIEGELMAN is a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus, which was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award. He lives in New York.HILLARY CHUTE is an American literary scholar and an expert on comics and graphic narratives. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University and the author or editor of seven titles on comics, including, most recently, her book, Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere. She is a comics and graphic novels columnist for The New York Times Book Review.

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