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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Grotesques"”.
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Vasari, the Medici, and the Grotesques of the Palazzo Vecchio
… walls, ceilings, and tapestries ornamented with grotesques. When Cosimo’s son and heir, Francesco I, married Giovanna d’Austria and then ruled years later with his second wife Bianca Cappello, they commissioned more grotesques for the palace. Though they are used throughout the seat of Florentine …
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The Early Thirties Novels of Erskine Caldwell (Depression, Southern, Grotesque)
… Tobacco Road, and Journeyman described Georgia grotesques whose primitivism and overt sexuality drew the attention of millions of readers. A fourth novel of the period, "Autumn Hill," was less successful. About Maine rather than Georgia and unpublished until the early 1950s, it reveals some of …
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The dynamics of terror : or, The grotesque character of Gothic fiction
… moments; in the later texts, fully developed grotesques create an ongoing mood of terror. In either case, an emphasis on the grotesque nature of Gothic fiction enables a better understanding of how these works generate their emotional impact in the reader.