Night Art Spiegelman Analysis

Writing Assignment 1
English 404-02

Length: 6-8 pages (1500-2000 words)
Due date: Thursday, September 28.

Write an essay that compares Night by Elie Wiesel to Maus by Art Spiegelman. Incorporate information from the film Shoah, parts of which we will see in class, Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews, or books that are on reserve in the library. You should have at least one outside source for this paper--more would be better. The comparison should include a contrast between the two works. Your essay should have a thesis or clearly defined purpose that goes beyond simply listing similarities and differences between the two works.

Ideas to consider:

· Avoid conceiving of the paper as an argument that one work is better than the other. Try instead to…show more content…
“Art Spiegelman: The Progressive Interview.” Progressive 53 (Nov. 1989): 34-37. Per AP2.P75.
Finn, Molly. “A Comic Book That Sears Your Heart.” Commonweal 28 February 1992: 23-24.
Gopnik, Adam. “Comics and Catasrophe.” The New Republic 22 June 1987: 29-34. Per AP2.N46.
Halkin, Hillel. “Inhuman Comedy.” Commentary 93 (Feb. 1992): 55-56. Per AP2.C64.
Langer, Lawrence L. “A Fable of the Holocaust.” New York Times Book Review 3 November 1991: 1+. (This review is available only on microfilm.)
Mordden, Ethan. “Kat and Maus.” The New Yorker 68 (6 April 1992): 90-96. Per AP2.N485.
Rothberg, Michael. “‘We Were Talking Jewish’: Art Spiegelman’s Maus as ‘Holocaust’ Production.” Contemporary Literature 35.4 (Winter 1994): 661-87. (This issue of the journal has not yet been bound.)
Stone, Laurie. “Chasing History.” The Nation 254 (6/13 Jan. 1992): 28-29. Per AP2.N3.
Totten, Samuel. Rev. of Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale—Here My Troubles Began, by Art Spiegelman. Social Education 57 (Oct. 1993): 338. Per H62.A156 (this volume is on reserve under Ed. 476).
Walton, James. “Nothing Comic About the Holocaust.” The Specatator 4 April 1992: 33. Per