Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index.
Contents:
Big people and little people : two cases of disproportion. Rabelais and Mannerism ; Swift and commensuratio -- Pathologies of deformation : Jonson, Sade, Pynchon. Narcissism : Jonson and the disfigured self ; Sade and the deformed body ; Hysteria : Pynchon's cartoon space -- Back to the future : From Picasso to Aristotle. Modernism and Mannerism ; Space and time for the ancients.
Summary:
Big people and little people : two cases of disproportion. Rabelais and Mannerism ; Swift and commensuratio -- Pathologies of deformation : Jonson, Sade, Pynchon. Narcissism : Jonson and the disfigured self ; Sade and the deformed body ; Hysteria : Pynchon's cartoon space -- Back to the future : From Picasso to Aristotle. Modernism and Mannerism ; Space and time for the ancients. Time and again, Donoghue explains, scientific and literary paradigm shifts have occurred in parallel. Rabelais and Jonson wrote in the aftermath of changes in the western sense of space wrought by Copernicus and the voyages of discovery, Jonathan Swift and the Marquis de Sade in the age of Newton, Thomas Pynchon in the age of Einstein. With his analysis, Donoghue establishes disfigurement and deformation as perennial sources of literary fascination."--pub. desc.
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