Monthly Archives: May 2011
Biel, chap. 4, pt. 2
More notes from Biel, chapter 4: Lampooning presidents through AG calls into question rhetorical “plain folks” appeals Irony is the default setting for AG knockoffs, though not of the original painting Nan Wood’s legal fight against certain parodies raises interesting philosophical … Continue reading
Biel, chap. 4, pt. 1
Titled “Parody,” Chapter 4 of Steven Biel’s American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Painting deals with the morphing of the painting along satirical lines. Biel pegs the beginning of this trend to the 1957 musical The Music Man, which includes an … Continue reading
Gothic Thoughts 