As we continue in our journey through the development and employment of the artistic concept of the grotesque, keep in mind its function is to arrest the attention without satisfying understanding. The grotesque creates distance for the reader or viewer, or what Victor Shklovsky has termed “ostranenie” (Russian for “making strange” or better translated …
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