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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... Sartor this point is made at the juncture between the bio- graphical and philosophical components of the text . The structure of Sartor is the most complex engagement with the grotesque in Carlyle's work . It will therefore be necessary ...
... Sartor this point is made at the juncture between the bio- graphical and philosophical components of the text . The structure of Sartor is the most complex engagement with the grotesque in Carlyle's work . It will therefore be necessary ...
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... Sartor Carlyle seeks to disrupt the characteristic values and gestures of contemporary intellectual discourse : linear clarity , inductive logic , functional efficiency . Thus Sartor works against the ' mechanical ' tendencies of the ...
... Sartor Carlyle seeks to disrupt the characteristic values and gestures of contemporary intellectual discourse : linear clarity , inductive logic , functional efficiency . Thus Sartor works against the ' mechanical ' tendencies of the ...
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... Sartor , the philo- sophical voice and body are grotesque ( absurd , scatological , incoherent ) , for Marx , as for Stephen , the textual voice must suppress the grotesque in order to affirm its legitimacy . In Capital , Marx begins by ...
... Sartor , the philo- sophical voice and body are grotesque ( absurd , scatological , incoherent ) , for Marx , as for Stephen , the textual voice must suppress the grotesque in order to affirm its legitimacy . In Capital , Marx begins by ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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