| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) |
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Part 1. Dark Comedy. Deadly Laughter -- Satiric Gothic, Satiric Grotesque -- part 2. Stratagems. Degrading the Hero -- Debunking the Author -- Dislocating the Language -- Gaming with the Plot -- Further Intrusion and Obstruction -- Discordant Endings -- Infernal Repetition -- part 3. Themes. Ennui -- Scatology -- Cannibals -- Dystopias and Machines -- Entropy and Armageddon -- part 4. Conclusion. The Death of the Humanities |
| Summary |
Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. Assuredly he was correct. The subjects and methods of our comic literature (and much of our other literature) are regularly disturbing and often repulsive -- no laughing matter. In this ambitious study, John R. Clark seeks to elucidate the major tactics and topics deployed in modern literary dark humor. In Part I he explores the satiric strategies of authors of the grotesque, strategies that undercut conventional usage and form: the de-basement of heroes, the denigration of language and style, the disruption of normative narrative technique, and even the debunking of authors themselves. Part II surveys major recurrent themes of grotesquerie: tedium, scatology, cannibalism, dystopia, and Armageddon or the end of the world |
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Geschichte 1900-1990 |
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Grotesque in literature |
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Satire History and criticism |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Grotesque in literature.
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Satire -- History and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Grotesque in literature
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Satire
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Letterkunde.
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Het Groteske.
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Satires.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813161358 |
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0813161355 |
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