Diseased Estate: historiographic grotesque
This thesis proposes the historiographic grotesque as an interdisciplinary aesthetic and thematic mode which occurs in representations of the past. Characterised by the contradictory interplay of horror and pleasure, the grotesque provides the grounds for an affective engagement with history. The hi...
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Curtin University
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/856 |