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Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 2019
Faulkner is often associated with the Southern Gothic, a genre that features Freudian repression, horror, and the grotesque.
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Faulkner is often associated with the Southern Gothic, a genre that features Freudian repression, horror, and the grotesque.
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Literature Compass, 2009
Abstract The nightmare visions described by early American writers such as William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, and Cotton Mather, with their allusions to a terrifying wilderness and its even more terrifying inhabitants, represent the nascent elements of the American grotesque, a tradition that emerged in full force in the early ...
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Abstract The nightmare visions described by early American writers such as William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, and Cotton Mather, with their allusions to a terrifying wilderness and its even more terrifying inhabitants, represent the nascent elements of the American grotesque, a tradition that emerged in full force in the early ...
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The Grotesque and the Modern Grotesque
1989The source of the grotesque in art and literature is man’s capacity for finding a unique and powerful fascination in the monstrous. The psychic reasons for this proclivity are far from clear, but the proclivity itself has left its mark on a wide variety of cultures, from prehistory to the present, from the most primitive societies to the most ...
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2013
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.
Graulund, Rune, Edwards, Justin David
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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.
Graulund, Rune, Edwards, Justin David
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2020
A particularly grotesque form of the comic sensibility emerged in the closing years of the nineteenth century in the works of George Luks. Luks was called on to take over Richard Outcault’s phenomenally popular Yellow Kid comic strip at Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World in 1896; he soon made the Yellow Kid his own.
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A particularly grotesque form of the comic sensibility emerged in the closing years of the nineteenth century in the works of George Luks. Luks was called on to take over Richard Outcault’s phenomenally popular Yellow Kid comic strip at Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World in 1896; he soon made the Yellow Kid his own.
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The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1972
John B. Bender, Frances K. Barasch
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John B. Bender, Frances K. Barasch
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Russian Literature, 2007
Abstract Gombrowicz's oeuvre is routinely described by referring it to the grotesque. It seems that in the case of Gombrowicz the grotesque is connected with dismemberment and decomposition. The motive of this artistic device must be sought in the author's entanglement in the horrors of twentieth-century history and his artistic preoccupation with ...
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Abstract Gombrowicz's oeuvre is routinely described by referring it to the grotesque. It seems that in the case of Gombrowicz the grotesque is connected with dismemberment and decomposition. The motive of this artistic device must be sought in the author's entanglement in the horrors of twentieth-century history and his artistic preoccupation with ...
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