A Monster Observatory

Cultural Teratology: The Monstrous and the Grotesque

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Thursday, 6 June 2013

Socrates, Silenus and the Grotesque

The links between intoxicated excess, wild dance, and rough music is well known in the figures of Bacchus and Dionysus. It comprises what ...

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Dr Ian McCormick: Dr Ian McCormick served as a University Professor. Most recent books: Shakespeare: New Voices; Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era; Class and Cloister: The St Andrews Correspondence (an epistolary satirical novel). Awards and Prizes include King James VI Prize; Lawson Memorial Prize; British Academy Research Studentship. Books and work featured on the BBC (Radio and TV); in the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, The Guardian, Time Out (London), and in academic journals. He has organized two international conferences for the British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies, at the University of Oxford and two International Community Film Festivals.

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