Premium Content Tracing the Grotesque: Anderson’s model in Faulkner and Woolf
By Jessica Rae Waggoner - April 26, 2004
In "The Book of the Grosteques," the first story of his novel Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson introduces the concept of the “grotesque.” This concept sets up the following stories in the novel, and can also be seen in other modernist texts following the publication of Winesburg, Ohio. Anderson specifically traces the birth of the grotesque back…
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