Author: John Dryden
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Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1110

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Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN: 9780892351527
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Henry Purcell
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Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Plutarch's classic biography of Cleomenes, translated by John Dryden.

Author: Royal Musical Association
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: William Hayman Cummings
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Raman Selden
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Unsurpassed as a text for upper-division and beginning graduate students, Raman Selden's classic text is the liveliest, most readable and most reliable guide to contemporary literary theory. Includes applications of theory, cross-referenced to Selden's companion volume, Practicing Theory and Reading Literature.

Author: John R. Clark
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183316
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. Assuredly he was correct. The subjects and methods of our comic literature (and much of our other literature) are regularly disturbing and often repulsive—no laughing matter. In this ambitious study, John R. Clark seeks to elucidate the major tactics and topics deployed in modern literary dark humor. In Part I he explores the satiric strategies of authors of the grotesque, strategies that undercut conventional usage and form: the de-basement of heroes, the denigration of language and style, the disruption of normative narrative technique, and even the debunking of authors themselves. Part II surveys major recurrent themes of grotesquerie: tedium, scatology, cannibalism, dystopia, and Armageddon or the end of the world. Clearly the literature of the grotesque is obtrusive and ugly, its effect morbid and disquieting—and deliberately meant to be so. Grotesque literature may be unpleasant, but it is patently insightful. Indeed, as Clark shows, all of the strategies and topics employed by this literature stem from age-old and spirited traditions. Critics have complained about this grim satiric literature, asserting that it is dank, cheerless, unsavory, and negative. But such an interpretation is far too simplistic. On the contrary, as Clark demonstrates, such grotesque writing, in its power and its prevalence in the past and present, is in fact conventional, controlled, imaginative, and vigorous—no mean achievements for any body of art.