Lynd Ward?ÆS Wordless Novels, 1929-1937: Visual Narrative, Cultural Politics, Homoeroticism (Routledge Research In American Literature And Culture)
Routledge
ISBN13:
9781032211169
$199.99
This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the wordless novels of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel. The study examines his six pictorial novels, each part of an evolving experiment in a new form of visual narrative that offers a keen intervention in the cultural and sexual politics of the 1930s. The novels form a discrete group - much like Beethoven's piano sonatas or Keats's great odes - in which Ward evolves a unique modernist style (cinematic, expressionist, futurist, realist, documentary) and grapples with significant cultural and political ideas in a moment when the American experiment and capitalism itself hung in the balance. In testing the limits of a new narrative form, Ward's novels require a versatile critical framework as sensitive to German Expressionism and Weimar cinema as to labor politics and the new energies of proletarian homosexuality.
- | Author: Grant F. Scott
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: May 31, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 232 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1032211164
- | ISBN-13: 9781032211169
- Author:
- Grant F. Scott
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- May 31, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 232 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1032211164
- ISBN-13:
- 9781032211169