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1	The grotesque in art and literature. more books like this by Wolfgang Johannes Kayser add to wishlist see all copies from £9.53! first editions
2	A history of caricature and grotesque in literature and art. more books like this by Thomas Wright add to wishlist This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ... see all copies from £14.86! new only from £22.00! \| first editions
3	The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque more books like this by David K Danow add to wishlist The world of literature responds to the "spirit of carnival" in ways that are both social and cultural, mythological and archetypal. Literature provides a mirror in which carnival is reflected and refracted through the multifarious perspectives of verbal art. In his original, wide-ranging book, David K. Danow catches the various reflections in ... see all copies from £20.63! new only from £20.63!
4	Monster Theory: Reading Culture more books like this by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £14.98! new only from £14.98!
5	On the Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art & Literature more books like this by Geoffrey G Harpham add to wishlist see all copies from £34.04! new only from £51.04! \| first editions
6	American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque more books like this by Dieter Meindl add to wishlist By synthesising Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and Heidegger's philosophy of "Being", this work demonstrates that American fiction has tried to convey the existentialist dimension: the pre-individual totality which defines itself against the mind and its linguistic capacity. see all copies from £43.33! new only from £43.33!
7	The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity more books like this by Mary J Russo, Russo Mary add to wishlist The cultural associations with the grotesque are deeply embedded in western consciousness and culture. In "The Female Grotesque", Mary Russo interrogates a vast and impressive array of theoretical, visual, autobiographical and performance texts. Russo argues that the "female grotesque" is less of a category than it is an operation through which ... see all copies from £43.16! new only from £65.31!
8	A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction more books like this by Robert Dunne add to wishlist Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the century, was acknowledged as an innovator of the short story form and a major influence on such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Valuable critical studies have examined his works from biographical, New Critical, or ... see all copies from £15.48! new only from £18.29! \| first editions
9	Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers more books like this by Sarah Gleeson-White add to wishlist This study adapts Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque, as well as gender and psychoanalytic theory, to the major works of the southern writer Carson McCullers. The author argues that McCullers' work has too often suffered under the pall of narrow gothic interpretations. see all copies from £22.79! new only from £22.79! \| first editions
10	The Grotesque more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor), Blake Hobby (Editor) add to wishlist Discusses the role of the grotesque in Frankenstein; Edgar Allan Poe's short stories; and, Winesburg, Ohio. With excerpts of critical analyses and original essays, this title also discusses the use of this theme in literature through the centuries. see all copies from £10.91! new only from £33.59!
11	Grotesque Purgatory: A Study of Cervantes's Don Quixote, Part II more books like this by Henry W Sullivan add to wishlist An interpretation of Part 2 of "Don Quixote" as a salvation epic. The study shows that chapters 22-24 of "Don Quixote" represent an entrance into purgatory, while chapter 55 is the exit from this realm. see all copies from £21.38! new only from £21.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	The Shakespearean grotesque: its genesis and transformations. more books like this by Willard Farnham add to wishlist see all copies from £4.07! first editions
13	History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution more books like this by Kevin M Platt add to wishlist What special possibilities for literary creation arise in periods of rapid transition from one set of social institutions to another? This book examines four such periods in Russian history: the era of Peter the Great and his successors, the epoch of the Great Reforms of the 1860's, the decades following the Russian Revolution, and the period of ... see all copies from £40.18! new only from £40.82!
14 view cover	Embodying Resistance: Griselda Gambaro and the Grotesque more books like this by Dianne Marie Zandstra add to wishlist "Embodying Resistance" traces narrative strategies in six of Griselda Gambaro's novels to the grotesco criollo and to the broader grotesque tradition. Gambaro (Argentina, 1928-) is widely recognized as an interpreter of a society in crisis. The grotesque serves in her work to ridicule authority figures in the family and in society at large and to ... see all copies from £20.27! new only from £20.27!
15 view cover	Horror more books like this by M Stuprich add to wishlist see all copies from £6.83! new only from £65.61!
16 view cover	Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales more books like this by Michelle Ilene Osterfel Li add to wishlist "Ambiguous Bodies" draws from theories of the grotesque to examine many of the strange and extraordinary creatures and phenomena in the premodern Japanese tales called setsuwa. Grotesque representations in general typically direct our attention to unfinished and unrefined things; they are marked by an earthy sense of the body and an interest in ... see all copies from £42.09! new only from £42.09!
17	Elizabethan Grotesque more books like this by Neil Rhodes add to wishlist see all copies from £11.73! first editions
18 view cover	Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance more books like this by Ralf Remshardt add to wishlist In this broadly conceived study, Ralf E. Remshardt delineates the theatre's deep connection with the grotesque and traces the historically extensive and theoretically intensive relationship between performance and its "other," the grotesque. Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance examines the aesthetic complicity shared by the two in ... see all copies from £36.87! new only from £36.87!
19 view cover	The Modern Satiric Grotesque: And Its Traditions more books like this by John R Clark add to wishlist see all copies from £20.42!
20 view cover	Geograf'a Esperpentica: El Espacio Literario En Los Esperpentos de Valle-Inclan more books like this by Enrique Torner add to wishlist Written in Spanish, this is a study of literary space in the work of Valle-Inclan. It looks at his esperpentos from a semiotic perspective, explains the symbolism of the locations and other "esperpentic" patterns, and argues that literary space is fundamental for the structuring of the work. see all copies from £32.01! new only from £32.01! \| first editions
21	Grotesco, Inmigracion y Fracaso: Armando Discepolo more books like this by David Vias, David Viinas add to wishlist see all copies from £14.28! new only from £23.92!
22	The grotesque: an American genre, and other essays. more books like this by William Van O'Connor add to wishlist see all copies from £19.19! first editions
23 view cover	Italian Grotesque Theater more books like this by Michael Vena (Translator) add to wishlist This is the first book in English to explore Italian "grotesque" theater in the twentieth century. Chiarelli's "The Mask and the Face" Antonelli's "A Man Confronts Himself", and Cavacchioli's "The Bird of Paradise" have been widely staged in Europe and the Americas by prominent directors, including Pirandello. These playwrights exercised a pivotal ... see all copies from £21.67! new only from £21.67!
24	The Grotesque Depiction of War and the Military in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction more books like this by David McNeil add to wishlist A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift's the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others. see all copies from £16.46! first editions
25	The Grotesque Interface: Deformity, Debasement, Dissolution more books like this by Alton Kim Robertson add to wishlist see all copies from £16.71! first editions

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