{"product_id":"lynd-wards-wordless-novels-1929-1937-grant-f-scott-9781032211169","title":"Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937: Visual Narrative, Cultural Politics, Homoeroticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grant F. Scott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032211164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032211169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Grant F. Scott","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44075491164415,"sku":"9781032211169","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2679dae0-18da-4ee2-8fa6-ab4a0f67194b.jpg?v=1685459737","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lynd-wards-wordless-novels-1929-1937-grant-f-scott-9781032211169","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}