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Medieval to Renaissance ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture The Grotesque Medieval to Renaissance ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture The Grotesque Medieval to Renaissance We need to hurry up because soon it will be the Renaissance and we will all be painting. Lysistrata. by Aristophanes. and. Commedia dell'arte. . The Comic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Lysistrata. by Aristophanes . The Comic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. English 2020-24. Themes in Literature and Culture:. The Grotesque.  . Spring . 2015. 100-225 | PH 308. The Grotesque in Theory. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. The true iconoclast is the image itself which explodes . . . allegorical meanings, releasing new insights. Thus the most distressing images in dreams and fantasies, those we shy away from for their disgusting distortion and perversion, are precisely the ones that break the allegorical frame of what we know about this person or that, this trait of ourselves or that. The “worst” images are the best, for they are the ones that restore a figure to its pristine, numinous, power. . . .. Pieter . Bruegel. the Elder (1525-1569). ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. The greatest of the Flemish sixteenth-century masters of genre was Pieter . Bruegel. the Elder. We know little of his life except that he had been to Italy, like so many northern artists of his time, and that he lived and worked in Antwerp and Brussels, where he painted most of his pictures in the 1560s, the decade in which the stern Duke of Alva arrived in the Netherlands. The dignity of art and of artists was probably as important to him as it was to . Jonathan Swift. (1667-1745). ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Jonathan Swift. (1667-1745). "Here lies the body of Jonathan Swift,. Professor of Holy Theology, for thirty. years Dean of this cathedral church,. William Hogarth, British Painter (1697-1764). Hogarth . on Mark Hardin’s . Artchive. The London of William Hogarth. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. William Hogarth. Hogarth, William. The Fantastic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Grandmother and the Kids. Science fiction, then, commonly uses techniques both from the realistic and the . fantastic traditions of narrative . Dada &. Surrealism. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Both responses to The Great War and the end of Enlightenment. Dada &. Surrealism. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. HBO and the Television Grotesque. HBO Water Cooler Commercial. HBO and the Television Grotesque. Memorable Episodes. “Humbug” (2.20).. Mulder and Scully investigate a murder in a circus freak show wintering in Florida.. The Macabre. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. The Macabre. THE MACABRE. It should be clear from what has been said so far that the macabre and the grotesque frequently overlap. . Hieronymous. Bosch (1450-1516). In real life he was quite an ordinary fellow I’m told, a city father who enjoyed taking care of the costumes of the yearly carnival. Of course everything was religious then.. Nathanael West . (birth name: Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein) (1903-1940). American Writer. West as Drawn by David Levine. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Anaïs Nin. (1903-1977). David Cronenberg (1943- ). Canadian Filmmaker. Cronenberg. Interview on the Grotesque Blog. David . Cronenberg. and the Cinema of the Extreme. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Mikhail . Bakhtin. . (1895-1975). Russian literary historian and theorist. .. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. François. The Uncanny. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. The Uncanny. Sigmund Freud. The concept of the Uncanny was later elaborated on and developed by Sigmund Freud in his 1919 essay .