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Tintin and the Secret of Literature [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Tom McCarthy (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Granta Books; illustrated edition edition (3 Jul 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1862078319
  • ISBN-13: 978-1862078314
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 stars Suffocating all the fun..., 29 Jul 2007
By Sophie Masson (Armidale, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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This bear-hug of a book suffocates its subject with far too much earnest theory and no mischief or laughter. it's clear the author loves the Tintin books; alas, then, that he nearly draws all the juice out of Herge's light-touched, mysterious and beautiful masterpieces with the usual dull postmodernist gabble of signs and signifiers and secrets!
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2.0 out of 5 stars The Cinderella Shoe effect, 10 Jan 2007
By DM Webster "arakis2002" (Norfolk) - See all my reviews
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What have, Foucault, Derrida, Sartre, Barthes, Baudelaire, Freud, Bataille and Bachelard got in common? Give up? They all appear in this book. Tom McCarthy has obviously picked up the student's guide to French literary theory and forced every element from the Tintin stories into one of these theories or another. The effect is unintentionally hilarious as he seems to be trying to convince us how clever he is by mentioning all these theorists. What someone forgot to tell him is Foucault and Barthes are (arguably) structuralist, Derrida (post structuralist), Freud (psychoanalytic) etc etc. When I studied these theorists they were all quite distinct from one another in how they approached texts. By using them altogether McCarthy loses his focus very early on. I was giggling gleefully at the pretentions of the first chapter and by the time he was trying to convince us that the Castafiore emerald is the opera singer's clitoris I was having a lovely time taking the p***! McCarthy does not 'discover' the hidden meanings in the text because most his 'discoveries' are not there. He picks a scene, thinks of a totally obscure theory or text to link it too and shoe-horns the two together, just like the ugly sisters trying on the glass slipper in Cinderella! McCarthy should learn that intelligence is not quoting as many theorists and obscure texts as possible, it is using one theory to completely construct a coherent argument without going off on a tangent.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Tintin and the undergraduate essay, 21 Sep 2006
Little more than an overlong undergraduate essay in the "compare and contrast" style. The author has too little intellectual reference and too much time on his hands.
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This book is: thrilling, convincing, fun, intriguing, and it ultimately re-invigorates the reading of Tintin. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars maybe postmodernism can be fun
a present from a friend who knew I was a tintin fan - it's made me think postmodernism might be other than a pretentious dead end. next stop foucault.
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This is a fascinating book, I found it really interesting to read in conjunction with more conventional criticism on literary 'greats'. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A good read
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