eJournal Questions
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Subject: 481 Comics eJournal: Amazing Adventures
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(Copy the questions below into your email message. Type your answers after each question. Then send your completed eJournal to Dr. Pagnucci. Write answers that are as complete as possible. Note also that grammar and spelling will not be counted for eJournals, so just do your best.)
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- “So it’s to be comic books, now, is it? . . . The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward” (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, p. 156). Do comics and their ilk (video games, action movies, etc.) cause an erosion in cultural and aesthetic values? Do they hurt our ability to appreciate fine art/high culture/great literature? How so or why not? Put another way, is it right for an English department to offer a class on comic books?
- The publishers balk at putting Hitler on the cover of Radio Comics. What should be the role of art in society? Why?
- Art for art’s sake
- Art for entertainment
- Art for practical aesthetics
- Art for political critique?
- All of the above?
- None of the above?
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Claywon The Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2001. Why do you think the book won? Is this Pulitzer-caliber writing? Cite a few examples from the text that argue either for or against this book meriting such praise.