Forging the Past: Seth and the Art of Memory (Great Comics Artists Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (822 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1496814797 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. His work has appeared in Studies in Comics, ImageTexT, and Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, as well as the anthology The Canadian Alternative. Daniel Marrone, Toronto, Canada, teaches English and visual culture
At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer existsand perhaps never existed, except in the panels of long-forgotten comics. Moving beyond common notions of nostalgia, Daniel Marrone explores the various ways in which Seth’s comics induce readers to participate in forging histories and memories. Seth’s comics are suffused with longing for the past, but on close examination this longing is revealed to be deeply ambivalent, ironic, and self-aware.Marrone undertakes the most thorough, sustained investigation of Seth’s work to date, while advancing a broader argument about how comics operate as a literary medium. Included as an appendix is a substantial interview, conducted by the author, in which Seth candidly discusses his work, his peers, and his influences.. Seth’s distinctive drawing style strikingly recalls a bygone era of cartooning, an apt vehicle for melancholy, gently ironic narratives that depict the grip of the past on the present. Marrone discusses collecting, Canadian identity, New Yorker cartoons, authenticity, artifice, and ambiguityall within the context of comics’ unique structure and texture. Even when he appears to look to the past, however, Seth (born Gregory
He is not the first to recognize that Seth’s interest in the past extends well beyond simple nostalgia, but he is the first to devote extensive attention to a troubling of nostalgia as Seth’s defining trait, making instead a case for Seth’s complex and transformative engagement with the past.”Dominick Grace, associate professor of English at Brescia University College and coeditor with Eric Hoffman of Dave Sim: Conversations, Chester Brown: Conversations, and Seth: Conversations, all