Lynd Ward's wordless novels, 1929-1937 visual narrative, cultural politics, homoeroticism / Grant F. Scott.
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...
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Origins
- The Silent Film, the Sketch and the Portrait in Gods' Man (1929)
- Colonial Legacy and the Crime of Scholarship in Madman's Drum (1930)
- Lynching, Labor and Homoeroticism in Wild Pilgrimage (1932)
- Disobedient Persuasions: Prelude to a Million Years (1933)
- The Limits of Allegory: Song Without Words (1936) and Hymn for the Night (ca. 1940)
- The Duplicity of the Word in Vertigo (1937)
- Epilogue: Dance of the Hours; or, Lynd Ward's Last Unfinished Wordless Novel.