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Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos

Download or Read eBook Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos PDF written by Michelle Ann Abate and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9781496844217
ISBN-13 : 1496844211
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Book Synopsis Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos by : Michelle Ann Abate

Book excerpt: 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 for which they 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 demonstrate not only 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.


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