10. MT @llaurappark It's the natural start. way you start exploring what interests you.copying helps you decode what it is that attracts you
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11. Spiegelman's tropism towards parody/pastiche also deepened his affinity with Kurtzman/Elder's MAD comics parodies.
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12. In parodying comic strips like Bringing Up Father & Gasoline Alley, Kurtzman/Elders also gave first real critical reading of those works
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13. With the Kurtzman/Elders example, can see that Spiegelman the historian/critic/curator is flip-side of Spiegelman the parodist.
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14. As an example of parody as a form of criticism, worth looking at Spigelman's Orphan Annie pastiche, "Derby Dugan"pic.twitter.com/HY40TpZC4D
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15. Here's an example of the type of Orphan Annie Sunday page Spiegelman was mimicking in"Derby Dugan":pic.twitter.com/0g0nm1KXzl
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16. You have to have read a fair bit of Orphan Annie to get all the details Spiegelman packs into piece: ominous mood, anti-FDR quip...
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17. More details AS got right: car accidents (frequent in Annie), classical quote, thick shrubbery, characters only half-visible...
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18. Spiegelman's pastiche is an act of criticism, an attempt to distill in one place everything specific about Gray's Orphan Annie.
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19. Pastiche-as-criticism brings us back to Austen and Updike, whose parodies were also critical acts.
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20. In reviewing Beckett's "How It Is" Updike adopted prose style Beckett used in that book (no punctuation, short paragraphs).
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21. The role of parody in literary criticism is rich topic. Donald Sutherland in various books on Gertrude Stein came to write like her
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22. Hugh Kenner always shifted his prose to match subject. His Eliot book is Eliotic, Beckett books Beckettian.
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