Seriously Weird
Subtitle: Papers on the Grotesque (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780820440354
Subjects: Curiosities & Wonders; Reference; Grotesque in literature; History and criticism; Literature, Modern
Description: "Seriously Weird pushes the boundaries of current understanding of the grotesque. In a set of interdisciplinary essays, contributors explore the grotesque in literature for adults and children, in contemporary film and TV, in psychological experimentation, and nineteenth-century midwifery. Seriously Weird reconsiders problems of defining the grotesque, placing it in the contexts of the carnivalesque, the abject, and the disgusting."--BOOK JACKET.