Title: Literature and the grotesque /
Authors: Meyer, Michael J. 1943-
Publisher: Rodopi,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Literature, Modern English.; Grotesque in literature.
Contents: Laughing in pain with Nathanael West / Ralph Ciancio -- Excavations of the grotesque in Peter Schaffer's Equus / Michael Quigley -- Disconnected voices, displaced bodies: the dismembered couple in Beckett's Krapp's last tape, Happy days and Play / Mary Catanzaro -- Uncomfortable reflections in John Steinbeck's grotesques / Brian Railsback -- Steps: mapping a grotesque universe or a unversal grotesque / Zita M. McShane -- Flimsy masks and tortured souls: Luigi Pirandello and the grotesque / Timothy P. Twohill -- Delineations in freakery: freaks in the fiction of Harry Crews and Katherine Dunn / Jack Slay -- jack London's class-based grotesque / Leonard Cassuto -- Jean qui rit and Jean qui pleure: James Joyce, Wyndam Lewis and the hight modern grotesque / Kelly Anspaugh -- The soul in the meatsuit: Ivan Albright, Hannibal Lecter and the body grotesque / Greg Metcalf -- What a dirty way to get clean: the grotesque in the modern American novel.