Kellers kleiner Horrorladen

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atefa Parsa
Keyword(s):  
Gottfried Keller ◽  
Large Repertoire ◽  
The Grotesque

With the intention of getting Gottfried Keller out of the ‘humorous corner’ and into the grotesque, the monstrous elements of his work are worked out. The result: catastrophes are Keller’s ‘day-to-day business’ and the grotesque is a systematic subject in his novels. The discomfort is shown in an extraordinarily large repertoire of grotesque characters, a world before collapse, and the urge not to burst into laughter when portraying it. The book shows how Keller creates this interplay between laughter and horror, what possible motivation he could have had and how realistic the whole thing is constructed by the author of bourgeois realism.

Aux frontières de l'expérience esthétique: le grotesque baudelairien

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-248
Author(s):  
Julien Weber
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
The Grotesque

This article is about the grotesque in Baudelaire. While Baudelaire's famous essay on laughter plays an important role in contemporary theories of grotesque aesthetics, his own poetic production is often left aside. In this article, I discuss how the grotesque manifests itself in works by Baudelaire that seem a priori irrelevant because of their ostensible use of ‘comique significatif’, a sort of antithesis of the grotesque. Through a discussion of Pauvre Belgique! And ‘Le Chien et le Flacon’, I argue that the baudelairian grotesque most powerfully intervenes in the mode of a distortion of the intended meaning, which leads me to distinguish its reading from a properly ‘aesthetic’ experience.

Contortionist, Caricature and the Grotesque Body

Umní / Art ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol LV (5) ◽  
pp. 400-408
Author(s):  
Tomáš Winter
Keyword(s):  
The Grotesque ◽  
Grotesque Body

The Grotesque Interface

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alton Kim Robertson
Keyword(s):  
The Grotesque

The Castle of Otranto

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horace Walpole
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
English Novel ◽  
Game Changer ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Grotesque

‘Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions’ The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, the novel tells of Manfred, prince of Otranto, whose fear of an ancient prophecy sets him on a course of destruction. After the grotesque death of his only son, Conrad, on his wedding day, Manfred determines to marry the bride–to–be. The virgin Isabella flees through a castle riddled with secret passages. Chilling coincidences, ghostly visitations, arcane revelations, and violent combat combine in a heady mix that terrified the novel's first readers. In this new edition Nick Groom examines the reasons for its extraordinary impact and the Gothic culture from which it sprang. The Castle of Otranto was a game-changer, and Walpole the writer who paved the way for modern horror exponents.

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