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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Grotesque in literature."”.
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Charles Dickens: artist of the grotesque
<p>The grotesque in Dickens’ works should be studied as a means of understanding his artistry and imagination. Biographical and psychoanalytical approaches to his fascination with the grotesque provide only partial explanations for Dickens’ use of hyperbole, caricature, melodrama and the macabre. …
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The grotesque in Gogol and Poe
… study focuses on the positive aspects of the grotesque and their realization through Romantic Irony and humor in selected works by N. V. Gogol and Edgar Allan Poe. Starting with a reassessment of Wolfgang Kayser’s characterizations of the grotesque in <em>The Grotesque in Art and …
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Distorted Traditions: the Use of the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson Mccullers, Flannery O'connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
… argues that the four writers named above use the grotesque to illustrate the increasingly peculiar consequences of the assault of modernity on traditional Southern culture. The basic conflict between the views of Bakhtin and Kayser provides the foundation for defining the grotesque herein, and …
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From the Pastoral to the Grotesque in Late Russian Realism, 1872-1899
This dissertation argues that, during the last three decades of the nineteenth-century, at a time when, influenced by Mikhail Bakunin's philosophies of destruction, Russian revolutionaries called for the annihilation of tsarist Russia, realist novelists turned to the grotesque mode. Whereas works …