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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... narrative that , in con- fronting him , loses him in the signs and forms of Christian Hermeneutics . Pregnant with the details of a typological system in which the near and the far , the old and the new , the sacred and the mundane are ...
... narrative that , in con- fronting him , loses him in the signs and forms of Christian Hermeneutics . Pregnant with the details of a typological system in which the near and the far , the old and the new , the sacred and the mundane are ...
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... narrative by growing out of the composition , he is forcing himself into a space that he fragments by his presence . Cromwell is grotesque because he is simultaneously engagement with and estrangement from being : his dwelling is a form ...
... narrative by growing out of the composition , he is forcing himself into a space that he fragments by his presence . Cromwell is grotesque because he is simultaneously engagement with and estrangement from being : his dwelling is a form ...
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... Narrative in Darwin , George Eliot and Nineteenth- Century Fiction , London : Ark Paperbacks , 1985 Beer , G. , Arguing with the Past : Essays in Narrative , London : Routledge , 1989 Beidler , P.G. , ' The Postmodern Sublime : Kant and ...
... Narrative in Darwin , George Eliot and Nineteenth- Century Fiction , London : Ark Paperbacks , 1985 Beer , G. , Arguing with the Past : Essays in Narrative , London : Routledge , 1989 Beidler , P.G. , ' The Postmodern Sublime : Kant and ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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