The book presents the realities of the images described in Poe's tales showing the grotesque-arabesque and/or the macabre.
I am grateful to Neil Cox for letting me read his thoughts on this topic in relation to humour ( N. Cox , The Erotic Climate of Marcel Duchamp ( unpublished MA thesis , University of St Andrews , 1986 ) ...
In this modern classic of criticism, Wolfgang Kayser traces the historical development of the grotesque from the Italian Reanissance (which originated the word "grottesco") through the "chimeric" world of the commedia dell'arte, Sturm und ...