Contagious imagination : the work and art of Lynda Barry / edited by Jane Tolmie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tolmie, Jane, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Critical approaches to comics artists

Critical approaches to comics artists series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Cartoonists--United States--History and criticism.

Cartoonists.

Women cartoonists.

Barry, Lynda, 1956---Criticism and interpretation.

Barry, Lynda.

Barry, Lynda, 1956-.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]

Summary:

"Lynda Barry (b. 1956) is best known for her distinctive style and unique voice, first popularized in her underground weekly comic Ernie Pook's Comeek. Since then, she has published prolifically, including numerous comics, illustrated novels, and nonfiction books exploring the creative process. Barry's work is genre- and form-bending, often using collage to create what she calls "word with drawing" vignettes. Her art, imaginative and self-reflective, allows her to discuss gender, race, relationships, memory, and her personal, everyday lived experience. It is through this experience that Barry examines the creative process and offers to readers ways to record and examine their own lives. The essays in Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry, edited by Jane Tolmie, study the pedagogy of Barry's work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barry's career and work from the point of view of research-creation, Contagious Imagination applies Barry's unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume, exploring Barry's imaginative praxis and offering readers their own. With a foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama and an afterword by Glenn Willmott, this volume explores the impact of Barry's work in and out of the classroom. Divided into four sections-Teaching and Learning, which focuses on critical pedagogy; Comics and Autobiography, which targets various practices of rememorying; Cruddy, a self-explanatory category that offers two extraordinary critical interventions into Barry criticism around a challenging text; and Research-Creation, which offers two creative, synthetic artistic pieces that embody and enact Barry's own mixed academic and creative investments-this book offers numerous inroads into Barry's idiosyncratic imagination and what it can teach us about ourselves"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: TEACHING AND LEARNING

ch. 1 Hand-Drawn Images and Playful Pedagogy: Experiencing Lynda Barry's "Writing the Unthinkable" / Melissa Burgess

ch. 2 Interventionist Teaching: (Re)Writing Trauma in the Work of Lynda Barry / Mark O'Connor

ch. 3 Lynda Barry's Syllabus, Neuroscience, and "the Thing We Call Creativity" / Davida Pines

ch. 4 Syllabus on the Syllabus: Teaching Lynda Barry in the College Writing Classroom / Tara Lynn Prescott-Johnson

COMICS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ch. 5 In the Orbit of the Cephalopod: What It Is and Artistic Education / Allan Pero

ch. 6 Autobiography and the Empathic Imagination in Ernie Pook's Comeek / Rachel Trousdale

CRUDDY

ch. 7 "Dear Anyone Who Finds This": Cruddy as Diary Fiction / Susan Kirtley

ch. 8 Confusions So Horror-Bright: Class and Gender in Lynda Barry's Cruddy / Rachel Luria

RESEARCH-CREATION

ch. 9 Me and Lynda Barry: An Autoethnographic and Artistic Response / Elaine Claire Villacorta

ch. 10 Big Ideas / Ursula Murray Husted.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Contagious imagination

ISBN:

9781496839794

149683979X

9781496839800

1496839803

OCLC:

1282006034

Publisher Number:

99991332803