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Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos : New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts
Title
Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos : New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts / Michelle Ann Abate.
ISBN
9781496844224
9781496844187
9781496844170
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (222 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" sheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts. More specifically, it examines a fundamental feature of the series: its core cast of characters. In chapters devoted to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Franklin, Pigpen, Woodstock, and Linus, author Michelle Ann Abate explores the figures who made Schulz's strip so successful, so influential, and-above all-so beloved. In so doing, the book gives these iconic figures the in-depth critical attention that they deserve and are long overdue. Abate considers the exceedingly familiar characters from Peanuts in markedly unfamiliar ways. Drawing on a wide array of interpretive lenses, Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos invites readers to revisit, reexamine, and rethink characters that have been household names for generations. Through this process, the chapters not only demonstrate how Schulz's work remains a subject of acute critical interest more than twenty years after the final strip appeared, but also how it embodies a rich and fertile site of social, cultural, and political meaning"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Introduction. Character studies: the Peanuts gang, reconsidered
"Sometimes my hand shakes so much I have to hold my wrist to draw": Charles M. Schulz and disability
What's the frequency, Charlie Brown?: sound waves, music, and the zigzag shirt
"Why can't I have normal dog like everyone else?": Snoopy as canine
and feline
I love Lucy: the fussbudget and the first lady of sitcoms
Franklin and Pig-Pen: the aesthetics of Blackness and dirt
Chirping 'bout my generation: Woodstock, youth culture, and innocence
Epilogue. Peanuts to watch out for: Linus Van Pelt, Alison Bechdel, and the legacy of Charles M. Schulz.
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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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