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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... relation to orders of art and the legitimacy of modes of knowledge . Although few commentators denied its application or veracity within specific contexts , its wider legitimacy was often associated with lowly genres or popu- lar ...
... relation to orders of art and the legitimacy of modes of knowledge . Although few commentators denied its application or veracity within specific contexts , its wider legitimacy was often associated with lowly genres or popu- lar ...
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... relation of the grotesque to realism in Brown's aesthetic is of interest here , especially as the classi- cal body of the labourer and the grotesque body of Carlyle are encompassed by a Hogarthian concep- tion of beauty constructed in ...
... relation of the grotesque to realism in Brown's aesthetic is of interest here , especially as the classi- cal body of the labourer and the grotesque body of Carlyle are encompassed by a Hogarthian concep- tion of beauty constructed in ...
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Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni. a tangled relation . Instead of a static one - to - one correspondence between the world and God , what is represented here is a natural world which makes its own order out of the relations ...
Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni. a tangled relation . Instead of a static one - to - one correspondence between the world and God , what is represented here is a natural world which makes its own order out of the relations ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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