ST105 Nature, Body & Transformation
Bakhtin and the grotesque body
The body that eats, rots, grows and overflows, and why it is comic as well as terrible.
Reading for this lesson
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Required Rabelais and His World Mikhail Bakhtin, translated by Helene Iswolsky the introduction and the chapter on the grotesque image of the body
Long but rewarding. Read after your first thoughts.
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Required Swamp Thing #1: "Dark Genesis" Len Wein (writer), Bernie Wrightson (artist) the whole issue
For the creature's body.
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Recommended Swamp Thing #3: "The Patchwork Man" Len Wein (writer), Bernie Wrightson (artist) the whole issue
For the Patchwork Man beside him.