The Pursuit of Power Can Be a Grotesque Affair Poe
journal article
PMLA
Published By: Cambridge University Press
https://doi.org/x.2307/1261186
https://world wide web. jstor .org/stable/1261186
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's grotesque involves a bizarre distortion which is neither tragic nor comic only disquieting. He conceives of the imagination as having an abnormal region that produces absurdities and monstrous forms. Grotesque motifs draw upon 2 spheres of reality: a under-globe coexistent with Nature, and the everyday historical world. The "other side" of Nature, uncanny and capricious, is inhabited by plain-featured beings governed by different laws of harmony and dissonance. In that location, non-Ovidian metamorphoses produce admixtures of satanic beauty and monstrosity, with Bécquer's description of them eschewing Dantesque moralism and approaching complimentary estheticism. In contrast, the historical globe attracts the imagination by means of architecture and its fantastic motifs. Other links to social reality announced in the detached sensibility of the grotesque. For instance, the carnival is described past a mood of hollow gaiety atypical of the ebullient Romantic carnival. Mannequin images also express disillusion and the advent of an anti-Romantic reaction, every bit does the presence of gratuitously induced incongruities. Thus, Bécquer stands between the Romantic grotesque, with its salubrious distortions, and the cocky-destructive grotesquerie of the twentieth century.
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