The Female Grotesque Risk, Excess and Modernity

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Mary Russo
ISBN:
9781136037429
Related ISBNs:
9780203609965, 9780415901642, 9780415901642, 9780415901659, 9780415901659
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
250
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-07-10
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1995
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction, Social Studies