Research Catalog

Title

Lynda Barry : girlhood through the looking glass / Susan E. Kirtley.

Author

Kirtley, Susan E., 1972-

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Barry, Lynda, 1956-

Description

xv, 217 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass, author Susan E. Kirtley examines the artist's career and contributions to the field of comic art and beyond. The study specifically concentrates on Barry's recurring focus on figures of young girls, in a variety of mediums and genres. Barry follows the image of the girl through several lenses--from text-based novels to the hybrid blending of text and image in comic art, to art shows and coloring books. In tracing Barry's aesthetic and intellectual development, Kirtley reveals Barry's work to be groundbreaking in its understanding of femininity and feminism." -- Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Great comics artists series

Uniform Title

Great comics artists

Subject

• Barry, Lynda, 1956- > Criticism and interpretation
• Barry, Lynda, 1956- > Themes, motives
• Girls in art
• Girls in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-210) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Outcasts and odd ducks -- 2. "True stories" : Lynda Barry's early years and works -- 3. Evolution of an image : The good times are killing me -- 4. Through a glass darkly : Cruddy's girl in the fun-house mirror -- 5. Girlhood under the microscope in Ernie Pook's Comeek -- 6. Scrapbooking the self : "autobifictionalography" in One hundred demons -- 7. Mirror, mirror : reflections on girlhood and growing up -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781617032349 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1617032344 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781617032356 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1617032352 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781617032363 (ebook)
• 1617032360 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011024295

OCLC

• 730054603
• SCSB-10540301

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library