The Grotesque Sublime: Play with Terror

Throughout "La Préface de Cromwell" (1827), Victor Hugo treats the sublime and the grotesque as different realms without seriously expounding upon their distinction. In examining the major treatises of the sublime, however, one will find that the grotesque actually resides inside the subli...

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Main Author: Shun-liang Chao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2006-06-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/553