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MODERN AMERICAN GROTESQUE IBD

JAMES GOODWIN
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRES
05 / 2015
9780814252352
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Sinopsis

Modern American Grotesque by James Goodwin explores meanings of the grotesque in American culture and explains their importance within our literature and photography. What Flannery OâÇÖConnor said in the 1950s of American mass media-that the problem for a serious writer of the grotesque is 'one of finding something that is not grotesque'-is incalculably truer today. Ask people what they find grotesque in the national scene and many will readily offer examples from tabloid journalism, extreme movie genres, reality shows, celebrity news, YouTube, and the like. As contemporary life is increasingly given over to such surface phenomena, it is an appropriate time to examine the more deeply rooted places of the grotesque as a literary and visual tradition over the last full century. á A lineage of the modern grotesque evolved in the fiction of Sherwood Anderson, Nathanael West, and Flannery OâÇÖConnor, and the photography of Weegee and Diane Arbus. Each of these artists adopts the grotesque in order to recontextualize American culture and society and thereby to advance an attitude toward our collective history.áTo understand the deep structure of the grotesque GoodwinâÇÖs book calls upon contexts that involve visual aesthetics, theories of comedy, prose stylistics, the technology of photography, ideas of reflexivity, and concepts of racial difference.áá á á á