Author: Lee Byron JenningsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Ludicrous Demon
Author: Lee Byron JenningsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Ludicrous Demon. Aspects of the Grotesque in German Part-Romantic Prose
Author: Lee Byron JENNINGSRethinking the Concept of the Grotesque
Author: Shun-Liang ChaoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351551140
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
How are we to define what is grotesque, in art or literature? Since the Renaissance the term has been used for anything from the fantastic to the monstrous, and been associated with many artistic genres, from the Gothic to the danse macabre. Shun-Liang Chao's new study adopts a rigorous approach by establishing contradictory physicality and the notion of metaphor as two keys to the construction of a clear identity of the grotesque. With this approach, Chao explores the imagery of Richard Crashaw, Charles Baudelaire, and Rene Magritte as individual exemplars of the grotesque in the Baroque, Romantic, and Surrealist ages, in order to suggest a lineage of this curious aesthetic and to cast light on the functions of the visual and of the verbal in evoking it.
Quevedo and the Grotesque
Author: James IfflandPublisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729301404
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Quevedo and the grotesque / J. Iffland.-v.2
Heinrich Heine
Author: Jeffrey L. SammonsPublisher: Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN: 9783826032127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Grotesque in the Fiction of Charles Dickens and Other 19th-century European Novelists
Author: Isabelle Hervouet-FarrarPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443874051
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the literary grotesque in 19th-century Europe, with special emphasis on Charles Dickens, whose use of this complex aesthetic category is thus addressed in relation with other 19th-century European writers. The crossing of geographical boundaries allows an in-depth study of the different modes of the grotesque found in 19th-century fiction. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the reasons behind the extensive use of such a favoured mode of expression. Intertextuality and comparative or cultural analysis are thus used here to shed new light on Dickens’s influences (both given and received), as well as to compare and contrast his use of the grotesque with that of key 19th-century writers like Hugo, Gogol, Thackeray, Hardy and a few others. The essays of this volume examine the various forms taken by the grotesque in 19th-century European fiction, such as, for example, the fusion of the familiar and the uncanny, or of the terrifying and the comic; as well as the figures and narrative techniques best suited for the expression of a novelist’s grotesque vision of the world. These essays contribute to an assessment of the links between the grotesque, the gothic and the fantastic, and, more generally, the genres and aesthetic categories which the 19th-century grotesque fed on, like caricature, the macabre and tragicomedy. They also examine the novelists’ grotesque as contributing to the questioning of society in Victorian Britain and 19th-century Europe, echoing its raging conflicts and the shocks of scientific progress. This study naturally adopts as its theoretical basis the works of key theorists and critics of the grotesque: namely, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire and John Ruskin in the 19th century, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Wolfgang Kayser, Geoffrey Harpham and Elisheva Rosen in the 20th century.
Dickens and the Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Michael HollingtonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317619706
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens’ work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian readers. The study begins by exploring definitions of the grotesque and moves on to look at three key aspects that particularly impacted on Dickens’ imagination: popular theatre (especially pantomime), caricature, and the tradition of the Gothic novel. Michael Hollington traces the development of Dickens’ application of the grotesque from his early work to his late novels, showing how its use becomes more subtle. Hollington’s title greatly enhances our appreciation of Dickens’ technique, showing the skill with which he used the grotesque to undermine stereotyped responses and encourage his readership to challenge their context.
Walking Shadows
Author: Ib JohansenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004303715
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Walking Shadows focuses on the American fantastic and the American grotesque, attempting in this manner for the first time to establish an overview of and a theoretical approach to two literary modes that have often been regarded as essential to an understanding of the American cultural canon. The central importance of these two literary forms has been pointed out earlier by important theorists such as Stanley Cavell, David Reynolds, and William Van O’Connor. A number of literary works, from the beginning of the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth centuries, are taken up in order to illustrate the inherent links or family resemblances between the two modes, with special reference to the way in which a Bakhtinian reading may facilitate our appreciation of their status within the canon. These excursions into the House of Fantastic and Grotesque Fiction may be of interest not only to hardcore aficionados, but also to philosophically minded readers in general, in particular perhaps to those who have paid acute attention to debates on late twentieth and early twenty-first century post-structuralism and deconstruction (where the classic positions of Foucault, Derrida, et al. still appear to be relevant).
The Grotesque in Art and Literature
Author: James Luther AdamsPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802842671
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The authors focus on the religious and theological significance of grotesque imagery in art and literature, exploring the religious meaning of the grotesque and its importance as a subject for theological inquiry.
The Grotesque in the Works of Bruno Jasieński
Author: Agata KrzychylkiewiczPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039112173
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book is the first critical attempt made in any language to re-examine the entire oeuvre of Bruno Jasieński (1901-1938). It takes into account the writer's lifelong concerns but places them in the context of the universal value of his writing, generated by his modernist passions and his fascination with the grotesque - an artistic device that was consonant with his need to portray life in all its complexities. The author relies on the grotesque as an element that unifies Jasieński's futuristic poetry with his prose. Especially important in this regard is the close reading of Jasieński's satiric grotesques written in the Soviet Union. The author does not avoid the intricacies and difficult questions of Jasieński's ideological commitment but focuses mainly on the consequences that the highly ambivalent and ambiguous nature of the grotesque has on the interpretation of his work.