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Title

Grotesque revisited : grotesque and satire in the post/modern literature of Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Laurynas Katkus.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

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Description

viii, 192 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This collection of essays aims to recapitulate the state of grotesque poetics in modern and post-modern writing. It concentrates on Central and Eastern Europe, introducing the Western reader to the variety and ingenuity of this region{u2019}s literary traditions, ranging from German and Russian to Lithuanian and Romanian literatures. At the same time, it seeks to highlight the importance of the grotesque mode of writing in the region. It includes new insights and interpretations of theories on grotesque and Menippean satire including (but not limited to) the works of Mikhail Bakhtin. The historic scope of the volume ranges from the legacies of Nazi dictatorship and exile to the post-communist times, but it is especially focused on the Soviet era. Scholars, not only from Central and Eastern Europe, but also from Great Britain, Ireland, and Turkey, analyze the literary devices of the grotesque, examining the relationship between the socio-political background and subversive representations of the grotesque. Many studies take on a comparative and transnational approach. Alternatively, some studies aim to present important and innovative creators of grotesque texts in greater detail. This book, which features, among others, contributions by Professor Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Chair of Queen Mary College at the University of London; Professor Alexander Ivanitsky of the Russian State University of Humanities; Professor Algis Kalėda of the Lithuanian Institute of Literature and Folklore; Professor Peter Arnds of Trinity College, Dublin; and Dr Carmen Popescu of the University of Craiova, Romania, will appeal to a broad academic readership, including both students and professors wanting to discover more about the literary grotesque and modern Central and Eastern European literature and culture. - From publisher's website.

Subject

• Grotesque in literature
• Satire > History and criticism
• Central European literature > History and criticism
• East European literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The gravity of the grotesque: Bakhtin's dislocated humanism / Galin Tihanov -- Section I: Central Euopean monsters and phantasmagorias -- Of satire and satyrs: the monstrous and the Third Reich in postmondern culture about Eastern Europe / Peter Arnds -- Hilarious hell: grotesque phantasmagorias in Central and Eastern European prose of the seventies and eighties / Laurynas Katkus -- The revolution(s) of the grotesque body: froms of satirical demystification in the post-communist German and Romanian novel / Roxana Ghita -- Section II: Crossing, mixing, subverting -- Hrabal's satirical legacy in the Central European autobiographical novel / Charles Sabatos -- Forms of the grotesque: parallels and intersections in Lithuanian and Polish literature / Algis Kaleda -- Grotesque and heteroglossia in George Tabori's works or: "Alle guten Geschichten enden mit dem Tod" / Johanna Öttl -- The grotesque and gender in Nils Sakss' prose / Karlis Verdins -- The creative role of the grotesque in the Moscow section of Bulgokov's The Master and Margarita / Alexander Ivanitsky -- Section III: Laughter and carnival in troubled times -- Parody, satire and carnivalisation in Romanian poetic postmodernism: a communicative approach / Carmen Popescu -- Novel and satire: discrepancies between theory and practice in Milan Kundera's works / Inga Vidugiryte -- On the background, stain and sry cleaning: Soviet satire as the practice of speech / Tomas Vaiseta -- The grotesque dimension of Witold Gombrowicz's novel Ferdydurke / Maciej Piatek -- The grotesque and memory in contemporary Estonian culture / Anneli Mihkelev -- Contributors -- Index.

ISBN

• 1443848646 (cloth)
• 9781443848640 (cloth)

OCLC

• 859582950
• SCSB-11947095

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library