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TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
PREFACE | vii |
I. ORDERS AND BORDERS | 1 |
1.1 The Gap of the Grotesque | 1 |
1.2 Contradiction: a Model of Conflict | 5 |
1.3 The Roots of the Grotesque | 9 |
1.4 The Method | 14 |
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2.1 Introduction | 15 |
2.2 A Twisted Tale, A Twisted Teller | 18 |
2.3 A Syncretic Style | 19 |
2.4 Narrative Laxity | 23 |
2.5 Bardamu's "Narraving" | 30 |
2.6 A Mad Mad World | 39 |
2.7 A Vast and Universal Mockery of War | 40 |
2.8 The Degradation and Depravation of Misery | 43 |
2.9 A Malevolent Mother Nature | 47 |
III.GRASS ROOTS: TIN DRUM GROTESQUE | 51 |
3.1. Introduction |
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3.2 The Circular Hermeneutics of Psychosis | 55 |
3.3 Chaos, Disorder, and the Dissolution of the Family | 70 |
3.4 Paternal Disability | 74 |
3.5 Maternal Disaffection | 78 |
3.6 Filial Discontinuity | 85 |
IV. MADNESS AND INCEST IN CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD | 91 |
4.1 Introduction | 91 |
4.2 Hermeneutic Delirium and One Hundred Years of Solitude | 93 |
4.3 Madness and the Manuscript of Melquíades | 94 |
4.4 Fiction and the Truth of the Lie | 98 |
4.5 The Still Life that Moves | 103 |
4.6 Family, Incest, and Social Decay | 108 |
4.7 The Epic Answer and Paternal Order | 109 |
4.8 The Repressive Response of the Eternal Maternal. | 111 |
4.9 The Rebel and Resistance to Repression | 113 |
4.10 The Failure of Repression and the Fall of the Family | 115 |
V. THE DEFORMITY OF THE HUMAN BODY | 119 |
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY | 125 |