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Author Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946-

Title On the grotesque : strategies of contradiction in art and literature / Geoffrey Galt Harpham.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1982]
©1982

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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  823.009 HARPHAM    Check Shelf
Description xxiii, 230 pages, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1 ch. 1. Formation, deformation, and reformation: an introduction to the grotesque -- ch. 2. Grotesque and grottesche -- ch. 3. Grotesque and grotto-esque -- pt. 2. ch. 4. Walking on silence: the lamination of narratives in Wuthering Heights -- ch. 5. Permeability and the grotesque: "The masque of the red death" -- ch. 6. Metaphor, marginality, and parody in Death in Venice -- ch. 7. To make you sea: Conrad's primal words -- ch. 8. Conclusion: doodles. dragons, dissonance, and discovery.
Subject Grotesque.
English fiction -- History and criticism.
Grotesque in literature.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Grotesque in art.
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