And here our troubles begin

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And here our troubles begin:Maus, Comics, Human Nature, and Cultural Difference

• And here our troubles begin

“Man is the symbol-using (symbol-making, symbol-misusing) animal, inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative), separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making, goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order), and rotten with perfection.”

Kenneth Burke, Language as symbolic action (16)

And here our troubles begin

Truth, Justice, and the American Way

• And here our troubles begin

More human than human

Siegel & Shuster

• And here our troubles begin

• And here our troubles begin

• And here our troubles begin

• And here our troubles begin

• And here our troubles begin