EN 3177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Animal Epithet, Metatheatre
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The class starts at the 1980s but maus is out of order just as an introductory text. All the texts are about the post wwii period. Maus is somewhat metatheatrical and is a story within a story. Key topics: defining comics form, mccloud: amplification through simplification, politics of simplification, maus as a self-conscious text in relation to common themes in, assessing subjectivity and objectivity in history and postwar expression autobiography. The first volume was published in 1981 in magazine raw that. Speiglemen edits but it was later released as a graphic novel. The first volume of the graphic novel was released in 1986. Dark night returns and watchmen and maus created an adult. It was eventually taught in the university and considered high art audience for comics. The code of approval said that comics had to have wholesome and moral themes because they couldn"t corrupt young children (1950s)
