TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Grant F.
TI  - Lynd Ward's wordless novels, 1929-1937: visual narrative, cultural politics, homoeroticism 
T2  - Routledge research in American literature and culture
SN  - 9781000587951
U1  - 769.92 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Ward, Lynd,
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - Stories without words
KW  - History and criticism
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003266808
ER  -