5. Greif's book is about how anthropological universal (capital-M Man) dissolved of internal contradictions as it tried to expand purview.
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6. Greif's major case studies are Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor & Thomas Pynchon.
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7. Barrier's book is about Dell Comic books, focusing on work of Carl Barks (Uncle Scrooge), Walt Kelly (Pogo) & John Stanley (Little Lulu)
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8. What's interesting is that the same dynamics Greif describes in American novel also very evident in Dell comic books.
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9. Barks, Kelly & Stanley all worked with "everyman" characters who weren't men but animals or kids (Donald Duck, Pogo, Little Lulu).
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10. In the Uncle Scrooge stories, we see anthropological universal confronting dilemma of shared humanity amid diversity.
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11. Uncle Scrooge typically tries to expand financial reach all over world only to face problem of despoiling what he wants to exploit.
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12. In the Pogo stories, Kelly moved from older liberal ideas of tolerance to celebrations of diversity for sake of diversity.
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13. Finally, in Little Lulu, tension is how Lulu learns to beat boys at their own game while remaining a girl.
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@jaytingle Right, but I think the Tubby stories themselves show limits of anthropological universalism.
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