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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... alien cultural meaning is also sometimes present ; the grotto is imagined as the visible but illegible remains of pagan or folk traditions and rituals . 16. Wright , op . cit . at note 7 , P. xxxiv . 17. Ibid . , P. xxxvii . xli . xlii ...
... alien cultural meaning is also sometimes present ; the grotto is imagined as the visible but illegible remains of pagan or folk traditions and rituals . 16. Wright , op . cit . at note 7 , P. xxxiv . 17. Ibid . , P. xxxvii . xli . xlii ...
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... alien . The irony and absurdity of these juxtapositions is lost on the ' author ' , whose position as embodiment of an objective science is thus threatened by the emergence of the grotesque . It is the author's failure to hear the ...
... alien . The irony and absurdity of these juxtapositions is lost on the ' author ' , whose position as embodiment of an objective science is thus threatened by the emergence of the grotesque . It is the author's failure to hear the ...
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... alien art all species of combination , however ludicrous , or however shocking , are attempted and executed without scruple . In the other modes of treating the supernatural , even that mystic region is subjected to some laws , however ...
... alien art all species of combination , however ludicrous , or however shocking , are attempted and executed without scruple . In the other modes of treating the supernatural , even that mystic region is subjected to some laws , however ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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