Charles Addams | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Charles Addams.

Charles Addams | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 1 page of analysis & critique of Charles Addams.
This section contains 157 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland

Some element of the usual Addams style seems lacking [in The Chas. Addams Mother Goose], perhaps a spontaneity due to working with a prescribed text, so that the macabre touch seems, in some of the illustrations, superimposed and the pictures just aren't funny. There are a few pages that have high humor, a few that are grotesque, and the rest are simply a mite dull. Here and there, a picture demands the background not all children have: for example, the farmer's wife (and the farmer) in "Three Blind Mice" are adapted from "American Gothic." Older children who usually enjoy Addams may be put off by the nursery rhymes; not all children find this humor appealing, but those who do are a special group of readers who have early become devoted Addams fans.

Zena Sutherland, in a review of "The Chas. Addams Mother Goose," in Bulletin of the Center...

(read more)

This section contains 157 words
(approx. 1 page at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
Copyrights
Gale
Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.