Tudor prose satire : the dynamics of a visual mode

"Peter Bruegel's Dulle Griet ("Mad Meg") is a collage of feverish movement replete with monstrous figures, absurd concoctions, and soberly aggressive peasant women. A besieged village forms the lower half of the setting while a parched wasteland stretches disjunctively in the background. A conflagration surrounds the entire scene casting an eerie orange glow over the chaos. Center foreground, Mad Meg, an armour- plated witch, strides defiantly to the left lugging the spoils of an apparent victory in one arm and brandishing a sword in the other. Without even so much as a critical preface, this work possesses an emotional integrity; that is, Dulle Griet elicits a response, usually a combination of revulsion and nervous amusement, regardless of how knowledgeable the viewer may be as to the precise nature of the traditions and conventions which influenced Bruegel. But one critical assumption, valid for both visual art and literature, maintains that elucidation of an artistic work enhances one's appreciation for it as well as contributes to recognition of its aesthetic integrity. Consequently, a critical study investigating Bruegel's unusual imagery, for example, qualifies as a worthwhile undertaking if it assists a viewer's understanding of the diablerie mode."--Page 2.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English (MU)

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Missouri--Columbia.

Year dc:date.issued

1975

Author dc:creator

• Gresham, Stephen L.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jones, William M.

Statement dc:rights

• OpenAccess.

Language dc:language.iso

eng, English

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/98967

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/98967