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The female grotesque : risk, excess, and modernity / Mary Russo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, ©1995.Description: xi, 233 p. ; ill ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415901642
  • 9780415901642
  • 0415901650
  • 9780415901659
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809/.9352042 20
LOC classification:
  • PN56.G7 R87 1995
Other classification:
  • 10.10
Online resources:
Contents:
Up there, out there: aerialism, the grotesque, and critical practice -- Female grotesques: carnival and theory -- Freaks, Freak Orlando, Orlando -- Twins and mutant women: David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers -- "From the base upward": Trilby's left foot, nationalism, and the grotesque -- Revamping spectacle: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus.
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Item type Current library Call number Status
Non-fiction Main Non Fiction NAN Rus (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-221) and index.

Up there, out there: aerialism, the grotesque, and critical practice -- Female grotesques: carnival and theory -- Freaks, Freak Orlando, Orlando -- Twins and mutant women: David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers -- "From the base upward": Trilby's left foot, nationalism, and the grotesque -- Revamping spectacle: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus.