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Li L Abner: A Study in American Satire Paperback - 1994

by Arthur Asa Berger


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Southwest literary humor and Yiddish humor collided in the ever-popular comic strip "Li'l Abner," From 1936 to 1977, when it ceased publication, this comic strip entertained, annoyed, riled, and amused legions of readers. Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, Moonbeam McSwine, Marryin' Sam, and Sadie Hawkins became pillars in American popular culture, and Dogpatch became a symbol, an emblem, and a community in mainstream U.S.A.

The denizens of Dogpatch were destined for their place outside the frames of comic strips. They were popular subjects on stage and screen and eventually made their way into scholarly studies.

Li'l Abner: A Study in American Satire, the first such assessment, is made available again in this edition which includes a new afterword by the author. Originally published in 1969, it was the first full-length book devoted to a single American comic strip. It has remained a model of how the comics, sometimes snubbed as "culture for the common man," can

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This study begins where other analyses of the comics have generally ended: with a serious and detailed examination of style and the way it is related to meaning.

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Al Capp's cartoon of Dogpatch's favorite son revealed as satiric culture of the common man

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  • Title Li L Abner: A Study in American Satire
  • Author Arthur Asa Berger
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Thus
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi, Jackson Mi
  • Date 1994-08-01
  • ISBN 9780878057139 / 0878057137
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.25 x 0.72 in (20.35 x 13.34 x 1.83 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Satire, American - History and criticism, Capp, Al
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94017079
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.509
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