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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... identified as the failure to complete expression or authenticate articulation as unified form . Cultural fragmentation is an analogue of social fragmentation . So , in the spheres of poetry , painting and sculpture , the achievements of ...
... identified as the failure to complete expression or authenticate articulation as unified form . Cultural fragmentation is an analogue of social fragmentation . So , in the spheres of poetry , painting and sculpture , the achievements of ...
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... identified by wilful refusal of orderliness , the grotesque realizes that secret attraction . If Puck deploys the category of the grotesque as a sign of the modern , the opposite is true of a sculpture completed by Woolner twenty years ...
... identified by wilful refusal of orderliness , the grotesque realizes that secret attraction . If Puck deploys the category of the grotesque as a sign of the modern , the opposite is true of a sculpture completed by Woolner twenty years ...
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... identified , that is , with a vision that claims that life is not reducible to language , to allegory.20 His mastery ... Identifying light as the sign of a force that generates and envelops nature , Chesterton outlines two approaches to ...
... identified , that is , with a vision that claims that life is not reducible to language , to allegory.20 His mastery ... Identifying light as the sign of a force that generates and envelops nature , Chesterton outlines two approaches to ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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aberrant aesthetic alien animal articulation artist attempt Bagehot Barasch beauty becomes bodily body Boswell Boswell's Brown Caliban Caliban Upon Setebos caricature Carlyle Carlyle's Cattermole century Chesterton Civilization claims Classical complex conception conflation critical Cromwell Cromwell's Dadd Dadd's Darwin decorative depicts Dickens Dickens's discourse Dresser embody energy entangled bank Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke fantastic figures force Ford Madox Ford Madox Brown French Revolution G. F. Watts Gothic grotesque grotesque body grotto Hegel human Ibid idea ideal identified identity illustration imagery imagination John Ruskin language London majolica Marx material modern narrative natural world objects Origin painting Palissy poem Poetry Pre-Raphaelite primal reading Renaissance representation Richard Dadd Romantic Ruskin Sartor Sartor Resartus sculpture sense social species Stephen Strand magazine structure struggle sublime Teufelsdröckh theory Thomas Carlyle Thomas Woolner tion Trodd Victorian culture violence vision visual Watts Gallery Watts's Woolner Wright writing