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ENGL 2020 (Dr. Lavery) | Themes in Literature and Culture | The Grotesque

  • 300 (movie directed by Zach Snyder)

  • Kathy Acker (fiction writer)

  • Charles Addams (cartoonist)

  • Sherwood Anderson (writer)

  • Ambiguously Gay Duo, the (cartoon characters)

  • Anime (Japanese film and TV genre)

  • Arcimboldo (painter)

  • Aristophanes (playwright)

  • Antonin Artaud (playwright, theorist)

  • Richard Avedon (photographer)

  • Francis Bacon (painter)

  • Walter Bagehot (critic/theorist)

  • J. G. Ballard (writer)

  • John Barth (writer)

  • Bela Bartók (composer)

  • Georges Bataille (critic/theorist)

  • Aubrey Beardsley (painter)

  • Beavis & Butt-head (cartoon series)

  • Samuel Beckett (playwright, novelist)

  • Gottfried Benn (poet)

  • Ambrose Bierce (writer)

  • Body Building

  • Body Piercing

  • T. Coraghessan Boyle (writer)

  • Constantin Brancusi (sculptor)

  • The Breast (novel by Philip Roth)

  • Bertolt Brecht (playwright)

  • Robert Browning (poet)

  • Charles Bukowski (poet)

  • Luis Bunuel (filmmaker)

  • William Burroughs (writer)

  • Robert Burton (writer, physician)

  • Tim Burton (filmmaker)

  • Wilhelm Busch (cartoonist)

  • Elias Canetti (writer)

  • Caricature

  • Lewis Carroll (writer)

  • Angela Carter (writer)

  • Celebrity Death Match (animated television series)

  • G. K. Chesterton (writer & critic)

  • Joel & Ethan Coen (filmmakers)

  • Commedia dell'arte (theatrical form)

  • Harry Crews (writer)

  • David Cronenberg (filmmaker)

  • R. Crumb (cartoonist)

  • Salvadore Dali (painter)

  • Honoré Daumier (artist/caricaturist)

  • Willem DeKooning (painter)

  • Dexter (television series)

  • Charles Dickens (writer)

  • Otto Dix (painter)

  • Stephen Dobyns (writer)

  • J. P. Donleavy (writer)

  • Jean Dubuffet (painter)

  • Friedrich Durrenmatt (playwright)

  • Easter Island Sculptures

  • El Greco (painter)

  • James Ensor (painter)

  • Family Guy (animated television series)

  • The Far Side (cartoon)

  • fairy tales

  • The Farrelly Brothers (filmmakers)

  • David Fincher (filmmaker)

  • Howard Finster (painter)

  • Freaks (Todd Browning movie)

  • Freaks and Geeks (television series)

  • Gargoyles (sculpture)

  • Jean Genet (writer)

  • Terry Gilliam (filmmaker)

  • Nikolai Gogol (writer)

  • Francisco Goya (painter)

  • Gollum, the (character in Lord of the Rings)

  • Grand Guignol (theatrical form)

  • graphic novels

  • Robert Graves (poet)

  • Günter Grass (writer)

  • Peter Greenaway (filmmaker)

  • George Grosz (painter)

  • Joseph Heller (writer)

  • Werner Herzog (filmmaker)

  • E. T. A. Hoffmann (writer)

  • Victor Hugo (writer, theorist)

  • Derek Jarman (filmmaker)

  • Jim Jarmusch (filmmaker)

  • Alfred Jarry (playwright)

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky (filmmaker)

  • Jonah Hex (graphic novel & movie)

  • Alfred Kubin (painter)

  • Lady Gaga (singer)

  • Lautréamont (writer)

  • Edward Lear (comic poet)

  • Tom Lehrer (singer/songwriter)

  • The Limerick (verse form)

  • H. P. Lovecraft (horror writer)

  • Mad Magazine (magazine)

  • René Magritte (painter)

  • Manga (Japanese comic book style)

  • Marilyn Manson (musician)

  • Robert Mapplethorpe (photographer)

  • Joseph Merrick (the Elephant Man)

  • Frank Miller (graphic novelist)

  • Mexican Muralists (painters)

  • Monty Python's Flying Circus (comedy troupe)

  • Henry Moore (sculptor)

  • Christian Morgenstern (poet)

  • Mr. Bill (claymation)

  • Hayao Miyazaki (anime artist)

  • Edward Munch (painter)

  • Helmut Newton (photographer)

  • Nip/Tuck (television series)

  • Joyce Carol Oates (writer and critic)

  • Flann O'Brien (fiction writer)

  • Joe Orton (playwright)

  • Our Gang (novel by Philip Roth)

  • Chuck Palahniuk (writer)

  • Pee-Wee's Playhouse (children's television show)

  • Perfume (movie directed by Tom Tykwer)

  • Harold Pinter (playwright)

  • Preacher (graphic novel)

  • Professional Wrestling

  • Rabelais (writer)

  • Raphael (painter)

  • Ren and Stimpy (animated television series)

  • Jean-Paul Richter (writer)

  • Rochester, Earl of (poet)

  • Philip Roth (writer)

  • Salman Rushdie (fiction writer)

  • Ken Russell (filmmaker)

  • Sick Joke Cycles

  • N. F. Simpson (playwright)

  • The Simpsons (animated television series)

  • Six Feet Under (television series)

  • Patti Smith (rock singer)

  • Tobias Smollet (writer)

  • Todd Solondz (filmmaker)

  • South Park (cartoon series)

  • Terry Southern (writer)

  • SRL: Survival Research Laboratories (performance artists)

  • Ralph Steadman (artist)

  • Laurence Sterne (writer)

  • Igor Stravinsky (composer)

  • Sumo wrestling

  • Jan Svankmajer (filmmaker)

  • Quentin Tarantino (filmmaker)

  • Dylan Thomas (poet)

  • James Tiptree, Jr. (science fiction writer)

  • John Kennedy Toole (writer)

  • Triumph, the Insult-Comic Dog (puppet)

  • True Blood (television series)

  • Walking Dead, The (television series)

  • John Waters (filmmaker)

  • Evelyn Waugh (writer)

  • Weegee (photographer)

  • William Wegman (photographer)

  • Walt Whitman (poet)

  • Tennessee Williams (writer)

  • The X-Files (television series)

  • Rob Zombie (musician, filmmaker)