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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... structure of language , and his account of Johnson . Above all , and to com- plete this physiognomic pathology of Johnson's prose , the reader is given the grotesque image of Johnson's body and the ' gigantic ' spasmodic twitching limbs ...
... structure of language , and his account of Johnson . Above all , and to com- plete this physiognomic pathology of Johnson's prose , the reader is given the grotesque image of Johnson's body and the ' gigantic ' spasmodic twitching limbs ...
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... structure of Shakespearean tragi - comedy properly represented historical action as a layering of multiple , unresolved and contradictory moments . Hugo's thinking itself drew on the theory and practice of German Romantic drama , in ...
... structure of Shakespearean tragi - comedy properly represented historical action as a layering of multiple , unresolved and contradictory moments . Hugo's thinking itself drew on the theory and practice of German Romantic drama , in ...
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... structure of tragi - comedy is unpredictable and absurd . Carlyle inherits Burke's critique of the Revolution , in particular his claim that the conditions which constitute a stable political culture can never be constructed anew on ...
... structure of tragi - comedy is unpredictable and absurd . Carlyle inherits Burke's critique of the Revolution , in particular his claim that the conditions which constitute a stable political culture can never be constructed anew on ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
Copyright | |
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