The Female Grotesque
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The Female Grotesque

Risk, Excess and Modernity

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The Female Grotesque

Risk, Excess and Modernity

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The grotesque - the exagggerated, the deformed, the monstrous - has been a well-considered subject for students of comparative literature and art. In a major addition to the literature of art, cultural criticism and feminist studies, Mary Russo re-examines the grotesque in the light of gender, exploring the works of Angela Carter David Cronenberg Bahktin Kristeva Freud Zizek. Mary Russo looks at the portrayal of the grotesque in Western culture and by combining the iconographic and the historical, locates the role of the woman's body in the discourse of the grotesque.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136037504
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One: Up There, Out There: Aerialism, the Grotesque, and Critical Practice
  9. Chapter Two: Female Grotesques: Carnival and Theory
  10. Chapter Three: Freaks, Freak Orlando, Orlando
  11. Chapter Four: Twins and Mutant Women: David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers
  12. Chapter Five: “From the Base Upward”: Trilby’s Left Foot, Nationalism, and the Grotesque
  13. Chapter Six: Revamping Spectacle: Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus
  14. Notes
  15. Index