Modern Satiric Grotesque and Its Traditions

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 repulsiveno laughing matter.In this ambitious study, John R. Clark seeks to elucidate the major tactics and topics de...