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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... becomes the only actual master - text at work : one in the service of the clothes - screen . In order to see the truth , Teufelsdröckh must miss it . He must become absurd . In this respect , Colin Cameron's recent claim that Carlyle's ...
... becomes the only actual master - text at work : one in the service of the clothes - screen . In order to see the truth , Teufelsdröckh must miss it . He must become absurd . In this respect , Colin Cameron's recent claim that Carlyle's ...
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... becomes a parody of itself . It is tempting to say that at this point Marx becomes Carlyle . Marx's attempts to speak the lan- guage of philosophical analysis fail with his memory . The tragic becomes the comic . Marx is no longer the ...
... becomes a parody of itself . It is tempting to say that at this point Marx becomes Carlyle . Marx's attempts to speak the lan- guage of philosophical analysis fail with his memory . The tragic becomes the comic . Marx is no longer the ...
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... becomes a way of absorbing the figure into the textures of nature . In such a moment of creation it is impossible to determine the agency of form and generation : distinctions between nature and the body are avoided by a process of ...
... becomes a way of absorbing the figure into the textures of nature . In such a moment of creation it is impossible to determine the agency of form and generation : distinctions between nature and the body are avoided by a process of ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
Copyright | |
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