Victorian Culture and the Idea of the GrotesqueColin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni Monstrous, absurd, humorous, demotic and contradictory: the Grotesque is a protean force working across different areas of Victorian life. This text examines a wide range of sources and materials in order to provide new readings of an important force that oscillates between style and concept. |
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... Darwin the order of the entangled bank is entirely unplanned , existing fortuitously by virtue of the operation of the independent working of the laws leading to evolution by natural selection.3 Darwin's scientific and aesthetic claims ...
... Darwin the order of the entangled bank is entirely unplanned , existing fortuitously by virtue of the operation of the independent working of the laws leading to evolution by natural selection.3 Darwin's scientific and aesthetic claims ...
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... Darwin's evocation of the entangled bank would be an example of the grotesque . The entangled bank is a dialectical image , in which death , through change and chance , leads to life in endlessly new and different forms ; it is the ...
... Darwin's evocation of the entangled bank would be an example of the grotesque . The entangled bank is a dialectical image , in which death , through change and chance , leads to life in endlessly new and different forms ; it is the ...
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... Darwinian grotesque : a grotesque which can embrace Darwin's claim that the entangled bank , rather than being a terrifying chaos , is instead full of wonder and meaning . In the context of this idea of the natural world the reasoning ...
... Darwinian grotesque : a grotesque which can embrace Darwin's claim that the entangled bank , rather than being a terrifying chaos , is instead full of wonder and meaning . In the context of this idea of the natural world the reasoning ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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