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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... values , a surrender to the author as star rather than an engagement with the author as self - effacing sage.44 It is , he claims , ' singularly characteristic of this age that the poems which rise to the surface should be examples of ...
... values , a surrender to the author as star rather than an engagement with the author as self - effacing sage.44 It is , he claims , ' singularly characteristic of this age that the poems which rise to the surface should be examples of ...
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... values of civilization itself . The civiliz- ing project is visualized as the suppression of the grotesque , a process of refinement and stabilization in which anarchic impulse is brought under con- trol . How are we to understand this ...
... values of civilization itself . The civiliz- ing project is visualized as the suppression of the grotesque , a process of refinement and stabilization in which anarchic impulse is brought under con- trol . How are we to understand this ...
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... values . Ruskin himself painted one of the decorative floral borders which intersperse W.B. Scott's mural paintings , the principal feature of the scheme . These illustrate the history of Northumbria from the building of Hadrian's wall ...
... values . Ruskin himself painted one of the decorative floral borders which intersperse W.B. Scott's mural paintings , the principal feature of the scheme . These illustrate the history of Northumbria from the building of Hadrian's wall ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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