Fiction of the modern grotesque
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Fiction of the modern grotesque
Macmillan, 1989
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Includes index
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In no other age has the grotesque played a more prominent role in art and literature than in our own. This study examines the use of the grotesque by such major writers as Kafka, Joyce, Grass and Pynchon in an attempt to account for the power of their unique visions of life in the 20th century.
Table of Contents
- The grotesque and the modern grotesque
- the paranoid vision (Kafka)
- Bloomsbody (Joyce)
- insanity as a point of view, (Grass, Nabokov, Beckett)
- the art of decadence (West, O'Connor, Pynchon, Marquez).
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