Grant F Scott

Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937

Visual Narrative, Cultural Politics, Homoeroticism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781032211169
• ISBN-10: 1032211164
• Artikelnr.: 63201334

Autorenporträt

Grant F. Scott is a Professor of English at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and author of The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts (1994). He has also edited Selected Letters of John Keats (2002), Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs (2005) and The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842-1843 (2016), and co-edited, with Sue Brown, New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Origins
Chapter 1: The Silent Film, the Sketch and the Portrait in Gods' Man
(1929)
Chapter 2: Colonial Legacy and the Crime of Scholarship in Madman's Drum
(1930)
Chapter 3: Lynching, Labor and Homoeroticism in Wild Pilgrimage (1932)
Chapter 4: Disobedient Persuasions: Prelude to a Million Years (1933)
Chapter 5: The Limits of Allegory: Song Without Words (1936) and Hymn for
the Night (ca. 1940)
Chapter 6: The Duplicity of the Word in Vertigo (1937)
Epilogue: Dance of the Hours; or, Lynd Ward's Last Unfinished Wordless
Novel (2001)