Format:
1 online resource (177 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415519090
,
9781134105984
Series Statement:
The New Critical Idiom Series
Content:
The Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film
Note:
Cover -- Grotesque -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Ackbowledgements -- 1 Grotesquerie -- Incongruity and uncertainty -- Uncanny grotesque -- Ab/normal -- Critical genealogies -- 2 Groteskology -- or, grotesque in theory -- John Ruskin: symbolic grotesque -- Mikhail Bakhtin: carnivalesque grotesque -- Michel Foucault: ab/normal grotesque -- Julia Kristeva: abject grotesque -- 3 Monstrous and grotesque -- Monstrous forms -- Hybridity, monstrosity, grotesquerie -- The grotesque and otherness -- 4 Grotesque bodies -- Deformed bodies -- Body horror -- Body parts -- 5 Disharmony and transgression -- Exaggeration -- Extravagance -- Excess -- 6 Attraction/repulsion -- Freaks and misfits -- Geeks and freaks -- Opposites attract -- The inhuman -- Terrifying and comic -- 7 Laughter and grotesque -- Laughter and grotesque bodies -- Laughter and the carnival -- 8 Queerly grotesque -- Freakishly queer -- Queer body parts -- 9 Postcolonial grotesque -- Grotesque states -- Erupting states -- Violated states -- Expansive states -- Conclusion: global grotesque -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Edwards, Justin Grotesque Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415519090
Language:
English
Keywords:
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