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Contents List of Illustrations 00 Acknowledgments 4 Introduction: Approaching the Grotesque 5 Subterranean Etymology 9 Defining the Grotesque 12 The Grotesque Is/Not the Postmodern 21 1. The Sense of Disorder: Art, the Body, and Performance The Perils of Perception 28 The Body, the Face, and the Mask 44 Carnival and Performance 58 Teratological Theatre 81 2. Theories Romantic Negotiations 93 The Problem of Grotesque Laughter 108 Bending Genre 121 Radical Metaphor and Mise-en-Scène 138 The Grotesque in Dramatic Structure 159 3. Classical Grotesque 173 Dismembering The Bacchae 179 Tragic Self-Consumption 198 4. Kunstfiguren: The Grotesque in the Modern Theatre 232 Ubu Roi and the End of History 240 Expressionism to Superrealism 256 The Triumph of Death 277 Grotesque Revolutions 296 Criminals and Victims 316 Conclusion: The Paradoxes of a Grotesque Theatre 348 Notes 359 Bibliography 370 Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Drama History and criticism, Grotesque in literature