grotesquery

He holds a revolver the size of his head his hand is shaking like the tail of a copperhead colt slivering inside his body waiting to rattle like the Holy Spirit out of his head waiting to get out so it won't come around to visit him again and now every time I fall asleep I dream it's me but instead of being a politician I'm a teacher instead of being the Treasurer of Pennsylvania I'm a poet How Quesada combines the flat grotesquery of a filmed suicide with a copperhead colt and the Holy Spirit rattling.

Also competent is Strike, an English actor in his 20s, intriguing enough as a handsome and noble simpleton who transforms into the scarred and extremely violent grotesquery.

Some of the grotesquery has a Dahlesque quality too.

Stylistically, Trosch's paintings of the 1990s seem a mash-up of irreconcilables: Although the subject matter and bright discordant palette really do owe something to Stettheimer's, the paintings' facture and persistent, gleeful grotesquery owe more to Philip Guston and even to Jean Dubuffet; Trosch's people, like Guston's, have a way of turning into cyclopean monsters.

The genre affords academics a wealth of psychological and philosophical booty to plunder--as well as plentiful scenes of gore, grotesquery and Grand Guignol to recount with relish--in films ranging from the nightmares born of German Expressionism through to acclaimed contemporary fare like The Cabin in the Woods, It Follows and The Babadook.

The trailer is a weeklong tick-tock of the terrors that befall Julia after she watches the video: The eerie phone call from Samara kicks off a week of grotesquery, including peeling flesh, coughing up a rope of hair, falling power lines and an unfortunate in-flight movie that sends Holt's aeroplane and its passengers into a fatal flight path.

Failure also appears in the grotesquery of gender theatrics (as in Marianas self-display and Ligeia's "Conqueror Worm"); the debility of uncontrolled male tears (here wonderfully linked to Susan Warner's sentimental 1850 novel The Wide, Wide World); and the hybridity of the "double-phallic" Dirk Peters, who "embodies racial and sexual anxiety" even as he embodies homoerotic desire (135).

The show's PG classification is justified, as it often features bodily grotesquery, violence and sometimes even self-harm (as in the episode 'Stimpy's Invention'); Ren & Stimpy writer and artist Bill Wray even admits that 'some of the material was shocking--it was so intense that it was going to stun children'.

(2) Caricature, as a tradition, belongs to the cross-writing iconography of grotesquery.

The Springfield event is attempting to separate itself from the pack, said co- organizer Joshua Carlton of Eugene, with a high level of aesthetics and a minimum level of grotesquery.

The work is characterised by disparities of scale, some unpleasant surfaces, a gender or sexual subtext and a lineage traceable to Gothic grotesquery, Greek mythology or the original gruesome versions of the Grimms' fairy tales.