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Reframing culture and criticism in grotesque laughter: The sublime excremental vision of Thomas Bangs Thorpe, humorist of the Old Southwest.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reframing culture and criticism in grotesque laughter: The sublime excremental vision of Thomas Bangs Thorpe, humorist of the Old Southwest./
Author:	Johnson-Bogart, Kim.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1993,
Description:	309 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 55-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International55-06A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9401440
ISBN:	9798208484722

Reframing culture and criticism in grotesque laughter: The sublime excremental vision of Thomas Bangs Thorpe, humorist of the Old Southwest.
Johnson-Bogart, Kim.

Reframing culture and criticism in grotesque laughter: The sublime excremental vision of Thomas Bangs Thorpe, humorist of the Old Southwest. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1993 - 309 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 55-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1993.

This essay explores the dialogic and critical relationship between Old Southwestern humor and mainstream American literature. It begins by conceptualizing early 19th century American culture as formative, and therefore characterized by competing forces of experiment--parody, burlesque, and hybridization--and definition of standards. Within that context, the essay examines how framing strategies both at the level of the tall tale and at the level of genre have served to subordinate and separate this humor and its grotesque vision from the more genteel, idealist aesthetic that defines what is conventionally considered legitimate or serious literature, but also argues that the deconstructive logic of the grotesque undermines the frame, transforming it into a passage into the laughing excremental world of Old Southwestern humor, a constitutive element of American culture in the making. From within the perspective of this aesthetic of grotesque humor, the essay articulates the mythic genesis of an American hero in a sublimely excremental moment in "The Big Bear of Arkansas" by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and compares this gregariously laughing character to the traditional American Adam. Thus, by reframing conventional understandings of the grotesque, the sublime, and their relationship, this discussion redefines the relationship of American character and identity to the American scene, and therefore critiques the ideology of the American Adam. In addition, by repositioning humor from "low" or "subliterate" to dialogic status, this essay reframes the more idealist aesthetic that grounds "high" literature, the canon of the American Renaissance. Finally, the essay applies the perspective of the grotesquely humorous aesthetic that shapes Old Southwestern humor to a reading of Faulkner's "The Bear," thereby articulating a genealogy of this humorous tradition in the conversation that continually shapes and reshapes American letters.

ISBN: 9798208484722Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Thorpe, Thomas Bangs

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