The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity

by Mary Russo

The grotesque - the exagggerated, the deformed, the monstrous - has been a well-considered subject for students of comparative literature and art. In a major addition to the literature of art, cultural criticism and feminist studies, Mary Russo re-examines the grotesque in the light of gender, exploring the works of Angela Carter David Cronenberg Bahktin Kristeva Freud Zizek. Mary Russo looks at the portrayal of the grotesque in Western culture and by combining the iconographic and the historical, locates the role of the woman's body in the discourse of the grotesque.

Genres: Feminism, Theory, Nonfiction, Academic, Art, Literary Criticism, Film

250 pages, Paperback

First published November 18, 1994

Reviews

[roser ❀ · Rating 3 out of 5]

muy bueno! otra vez estoy tan en desacuerdo que he escrito un tfg al respecto

[Echo · Rating 2 out of 5]

The introduction through the first chapter or two are really great, raising very provoking questions and dealing with fascinating themes. There is little payoff or development as the book goes on unfortunately. The later chapters are very "media theory" and not in a good way.

[Sofia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating is based solely on Chapter 4 'Twins and Mutant Women', as a text on Cronenberg's 'Dead Ringers'