Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography

by James Goodwin

Book Overview

Modern American Grotesque by James Goodwin explores meanings of the grotesque in American culture and explains their importance within our literature and photography. What Flannery O'Connor said in the 1950s of American mass media--that the problem for a serious writer of the grotesque is "one of finding something that is not grotesque"--is incalculably truer today. Ask people what they find grotesque in the national scene and many will readily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814252354
• ISBN13: 9780814252352
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"