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Article · Semiotica · January 22, 2024

The grotesque as a literary issue

Gulmariya Ospanova, Altynai Askarova, B.N. Agabekova, Assel Zhutayeva, Saule Askarova

Balzhan Nurtazayevna Agabekova
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Abstract

Abstract Grotesque imagery is widely used by all genres and movements of art and literature without exception, but its historical development and theoretical aspects have not been sufficiently studied. This study seeks to define and diagnose the main aspects of the development of the grotesque as a literary problem. The leading methods of researching this problem are methods of analysis, deduction, induction, and comparison of approaches. The research covers the approaches to the study of the grotesque phenomenon; the interpretation of this trope is provided, its origin is described, in whose works it is widely used; the forms of grotesque and its specific features are described; various theoretical concepts of the question are demonstrated; the codes of grotesque poetics and their levels of display in the artistic system of works are identified; the qualities and features of Poe’s literary activity are diagnosed, and the components of the grotesque aesthetics are defined. The material in this study is of practical and theoretical value to students and literary scholars who study literature and its artistic features.

Literary Theory and Cultural HermeneuticsGothic Literature and Media AnalysisRussian Literature and Bakhtin Studiesgrotesquegrotesque imagerygrotesque aesthetics

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