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Literature and the Grotesque / volume edited by Michael J. Meyer. - 1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations. - Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 15 . - Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 15. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ralph CIANCIO: Laughing In Pain With Nathanael West. Michael QUIGLEY: Excavations of The Grotesque in Peter Schaffer's Equus. Mary CATANZARO: Disconnected Voices, Displaced Bodies: The Dismembered Couple in Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Happy Days and Play. Brian RAILSBACK: Uncomfortable Reflections in John Steinbeck's Grotesques. Zita M. MCSHANE: Steps: Mapping a Grotesque Universe or a Universal Grotesque. Timothy P. TWOHILL: Flimsy Masks and Tortured Souls: Luigi Pirandello and The Grotesque. Jack SLAY, Jr.: Delineations in Freakery: Freaks in The Fiction of Harry Crews and Katherine Dunn. Leonard CASSUTO: Jack London's Class-Based Grotesque. Kelly ANSPAUGH: Jean qui rit and Jean qui pleure: James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and The High Modern Grotesque. Greg METCALF: The Soul In The Meatsuit: Ivan Albright, Hannibal Lecter and The Body Grotesque. Tim LIBRETTI: What A Dirty Way To Get Clean: The Grotesque in The Modern American Novel.


English

ISBN: 9789004656475 9789051837933

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004656475 DOI

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Grotesque in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PN56.G7

Dewey Class. No.: 809.93