TY - BOOK ID - 1737109 TI - The modern satiric grotesque and its traditions PY - 1991 SN - 0813117445 1322601038 0813161355 9780813117447 PB - Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, DB - UniCat KW - Thematology KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Grotesque in literature. KW - Satire KW - History and criticism. KW - Satire - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1737109 AB - Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. Assuredly he was correct. The subjects and methods of our comic literature (and much of our other literature) are regularly disturbing and often repulsive -- no laughing matter.In this ambitious study, John R. Clark seeks to elucidate the major tactics and topics deployed in modern literary dark humor. In Part I he explores the satiric strategies of authors of the grotesque, strategies that undercut conventional usage and form: the de-basement of heroes, the ER -