The modern satiric grotesque and its traditions /

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Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. Assuredly he was correct. The subjects and methods of our comic literature (and much of our other literature) are regularly disturbing and often repulsive -- no l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clark, John R., 1930- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
Temas:
Grotesque in literature.
Satire > History and criticism.
Grotesque dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Grotesque in literature
Satire
Letterkunde.
Het Groteske.
Satires.
Geschichte > 1900-1990
Satire > History and criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Dark Comedy. Deadly Laughter
  • Satiric Gothic, Satiric Grotesque
  • part 2. Stratagems. Degrading the Hero
  • Debunking the Author
  • Dislocating the Language
  • Gaming with the Plot
  • Further Intrusion and Obstruction
  • Discordant Endings
  • Infernal Repetition
  • part 3. Themes. Ennui
  • Scatology
  • Cannibals
  • Dystopias and Machines
  • Entropy and Armageddon
  • part 4. Conclusion. The Death of the Humanities.

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