Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture (Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496849582 ISBN 13: 9781496849588

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2024

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY EDITED BOOK PRIZE

Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Najarian, Katherine Roeder, Noa Saunders, Clémence Sfadj, Nick Sturm, Glenn Willmott, and Daniel Worden

Since the early 1990s, cartoonist Art Spiegelman has made the case that comics are the natural inheritor of the aesthetic tradition associated with the modernist movement of the early twentieth century. In recent years, scholars have begun to place greater import on the shared historical circumstances of early comics and literary and artistic modernism. Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture is an interdisciplinary consideration of myriad social, cultural, and aesthetic connections.

Filling a gap in current scholarship, an impressively diverse group of scholars approaches the topic from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and methodologies. Drawing on work in literary studies, art history, film studies, philosophy, and material culture studies, contributors attend to the dynamic relationship between avant-garde art, literature, and comics. Essays by both established and emerging voices examine topics as divergent as early twentieth-century film, museum exhibitions, newspaper journalism, magazine illustration, and transnational literary circulation.

In presenting varied critical approaches, this book highlights important interpretive questions for the field. Contributors sometimes arrive at thoughtful consensus and at other times settle on productive disagreements. Ultimately, this collection aims to extend traditional lines of inquiry in both comics studies and modernist studies and to reveal overlaps between ostensibly disparate artistic practices and movements.

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Najarian is visiting assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Colgate University. His research and writing focus on media theory, print history, and popular culture, and his essays have appeared in journals such as Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Modernism/modernity.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496849582
• ISBN 13: 9781496849588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Najarian Jonathan