EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Art Spiegelman, Thesis Statement, Heteronormativity
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A thesis statement is the controlling, focusing idea of an analytical paper. It succinctly expresses the idea that the paper will prove. Your thesis statement will make a debatable claim about the work(s) of literature you"ll discuss. Typically, the thesis claim will be made within the first paragraph of your analytical paper. Historicized cultural assumptions about death or emotion or sexuality or reason. The possibility of ever being scientifically objective". Maus, volume 1 (1986) and volume 2 (1991) I felt that images were suddenly powerless to help us understand what had happened. The only appropriate solution seemed to be to publish no cover image at all an all-black cover. Then art suggested adding the outlines of the two towers, black on black. So from no cover came a perfect image, which conveyed something about the unbearable loss of life, the sudden absence in our skyline, the abrupt tear in the fabric of reality. : francoise mouly.
