HUMA 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Narration, Linda Hutcheon, Understanding Comics
15 Nov 2017
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4 quests: survival during the war, art with the story, male failing at leaving vladek, Maps of poland and of the camps. Diagram for shoe repairs and how to build an outside bunker or inside hiding place. Analyses the title of the book on the front cover. The title spiegelman has chosen for his "survivor"s tale" illustrates well the interplay between the visual and aural codes that structure his texts. Maus sounds like mouse but its german spelling echoes visually the recurring nazi command "juden. Raus" ("jews out" come out or get out) as well as the rst three letters of "auschwitz," a word that in itself has become an icon of the holocaust. Spiegelman reinforces this association when, in the second volume, he refers to the camp as "mauschwitz" . Similarly, the subtitle of volume i plays with the visual and aural dimensions of the word.
