The Grotesque And The Unnatural
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: Cambria Press |
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: 296 |
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: 9781621968191 |
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: 1621968197 |
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: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Grotesque and the Unnatural by :
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: Markku Salmela |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
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: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1604977922 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781604977929 |
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: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Grotesque and the Unnatural by : Markku Salmela
The grotesque has provided both laymen and scholars with extreme delights for centuries: from the ornamental combining of rare motifs in antiquity to a hybridisation of structural genres in recent times; from fantastical fusions of humans and beasts to comic exaggerations of bodily aberrations and prosthetic postmodern visions. Eluding clear classification at all times, the notion has often been identified with ideas of contradiction and conflation and observed in relation to principles and categories such as estrangement (Wolfgang Kayser) and carnival (Mikhail Bakhtin), the sublime (Victor Hugo) and Victorian Gothic imagination (John Ruskin). In this context, the present volume appears as a synthesis and radical questioning of existing historical developments. The book contributes to current discussions on the grotesque in contemporary literary and cultural theory from the perspective of one specific motif: the unnatural. Quite like the grotesque, observing the unnatural (and unnaturalness) reveals a resilient strain in critical thought, and the significance of this history gradually unfolds as the volume charts the progress of its main themes from the Renaissance to the present day. While in much current talk about theory and criticism certain related notions are still posited for and against each other--what is seen as normal or natural and what is not, and what should be seen as normal or natural and what should not--the discussions in The Grotesque and the Unnatural go a long way toward founding a new vista from which to observe this beguiling opposition. The book presents a new perspective on the grotesque by considering it as a phenomenon which comes into being only through a negation of sorts, yet refusing to place it in a simple, normative pattern as nature's antithesis or expressive gesture. As the articles demonstrate, the grotesque is always in the process of subverting or surpassing something, always not being ideal or sufficient to either nature or a social rule, and this very negation affects its status as a tool of transformation or emancipation from norm: the grotesque figure does not represent any particular stage of development or natural state of being. As such, the grotesque hints at and hinges on something that exceeds habitual spheres of culture and communication but, as the book aims to show, this elusiveness of meaning gives no cause for analytic despair. By tracing the involutions of the grotesque with the unnatural in specific literary cases, the book evokes centuries of Western cultural history and ultimately focuses on two questions: How and why does the grotesque tend to negate nature, and how does it affect our understanding of what we see? The diverse materials and historical scope of The Grotesque and the Unnatural make the book, in its exceptional thematic unity, a valuable addition to the fields of literary and cultural studies.
Author |
: Julie A. Brown |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0754657779 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780754657774 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bartók and the Grotesque by : Julie A. Brown
In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bartók engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bartók's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bartók was composing.
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: Julie Brown |
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: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2017-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351574570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351574574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bartók and the Grotesque by : Julie Brown
The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bart ngaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title. In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bart concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While Bart eveloped each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bart as composing.
Author |
: Michael J. Meyer |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2023-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004656475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004656472 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Literature and the Grotesque by : Michael J. Meyer
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: John R. Clark |
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: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2021-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813183312 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813183316 |
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: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Modern Satiric Grotesque and Its Traditions by : John R. Clark
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. Clearly the literature of the grotesque is obtrusive and ugly, its effect morbid and disquieting—and deliberately meant to be so. Grotesque literature may be unpleasant, but it is patently insightful. Indeed, as Clark shows, all of the strategies and topics employed by this literature stem from age-old and spirited traditions. Critics have complained about this grim satiric literature, asserting that it is dank, cheerless, unsavory, and negative. But such an interpretation is far too simplistic. On the contrary, as Clark demonstrates, such grotesque writing, in its power and its prevalence in the past and present, is in fact conventional, controlled, imaginative, and vigorous—no mean achievements for any body of art.
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: Dianne Marie Zandstra |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 556 |
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: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: MSU:31293021778539 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Griselda Gambaro and the Grotesque by : Dianne Marie Zandstra
Author |
: Frances K. Barasch |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2018-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111715100 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111715108 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The grotesque by : Frances K. Barasch
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Author |
: William J. Scheick |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1979 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813133211 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813133218 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Half-blood by : William J. Scheick
The guarantee of free speech enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights draws upon two millennia of Western thought about the value and necessity of free inquiry. Acclaimed legal scholar George Anastaplo traces the philosophical development of the idea of free inquiry from PlatoÕs Apology to Socrates to John MiltonÕs Areopagitica. He describes how these seminal texts and others by such diverse thinkers as St. Paul, Thomas More, and John Stuart Mill influenced the formation and the earliest applications of the First Amendment. Anastaplo also focuses on the critical free speech implications of a dozen Supreme Court cases and shows how First Amendment interpretations have evolved in response to modern events. Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment grounds its vision of AmericaÕs most basic freedoms in the intellectual traditions of Western political philosophy, providing crucial insight into the legal challenges of the future through the lens of the past.
Author |
: Susan Meld Shell |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2012-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521769426 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521769426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kant's Observations and Remarks by : Susan Meld Shell
Kant's Observations of 1764 and Remarks of 1764-5 (a set of fragments written in the margins of his copy of the Observations) document a crucial turning point in his life and thought. Both reveal the growing importance for him of ethics, anthropology and politics, but with an important difference. The Observations attempts to observe human nature directly. The Remarks, by contrast, reveals a revolution in Kant's thinking, largely inspired by Rousseau, who 'turned him around' by disclosing to Kant the idea of a 'state of freedom' (modelled on the state of nature) as a touchstone for his thinking. This and related thoughts anticipate such famous later doctrines as the categorical imperative. This collection of essays by leading Kant scholars illuminates the many and varied topics within these two rich works, including the emerging relations between theory and practice, ethics and anthropology, men and women, philosophy, history and the 'rights of man'.