THE GROTESQUE AS A LITERARY STRATEGY FOR EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE
THE GROTESQUE AS A LITERARY STRATEGY FOR EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE
Author(s): Anna WalczukSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: G.K. Chesterton; grotesque; literary strategy; narrative fiction
Summary/Abstract: Literary grotesque is presented as a powerful rhetorical strategy to communicate a range of existential experience difficult to express through conventional verbal means. The discussion concentrates on G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, demonstrating how the framing of the narrative in the grotesque mode serves an epistemological quest.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 159-172
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English