The Grotesque Modernist Body Gothic Horror and Carnival Satire in Art and Writing
The Grotesque Modernist Body explores how and why modernist authors drew on the traditions of the grotesque body in order to represent modern reality accurately. The author employs the concept of the grotesque body as a theoretical framework with which to examine rigorously a range of modernist nove...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Palgrave Gothic
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A Grotesque Modern Moment
- Chapter One: Joseph Conrad: Bodily Authority
- Chapter Two: Wyndham Lewis: Reading Below the Skin
- Chapter Three: T.S. Eliot: The City as Poet
- Chapter Four: Djuna Barnes: The Female Abject of Desire
- Conclusion: The Modern Grotesque Body