...process; it is the epitome of incompleteness. And such is precisely the grotesque concept of the body. Contrary to modern canons, the grotesque body is not...unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits. The stress is laid on those parts of the body that are open to the outside world, that is, the parts...

...border or margin. The grotesque body is never individual, for it transgresses every isolating limit. "Contrary to modern canons, the grotesque body is...unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits. The stress is laid on those parts of the body that are open to the outside world, that is, the parts...

...classes, governed by hierarchy and etiquette of formal institutions.4 The grotesque body, in contrast, is not separated from the rest of the world. It is...unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits.5 Those parts of the grotesque body that were open to the outside world were emphasized: the...

...its most salient characteristics is its use of imagery involving what he calls the "grotesque body." Contrary to modern canons, the grotesque body is not...unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits. The stress is laid on those parts of the body that are open to the outside world, that is, the parts...

...diableries, feasts, carnivals, and the commedia dell' arte). 8 According to Bakhtin, the grotesque body: "is not a closed, completed unit; it is unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits. The stress is laid on those parts of the body that are open to the outside world, that is, the parts...

...grotesque realism" (18). Just as carnival challenges the social order, the grotesque body, Bakhtin writes, "is not a closed, completed unit; it is unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits" (26). 17 More precisely, if one can be precise about something whose essence lies in mutability: "The...

...as expounded in his work on Rabelais, hinges upon a consideration of the contours of the human body: Contrary to modern canons, the grotesque body is not...unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits. The stress is laid on those parts of the body that are open to the outside world, that is, the parts...

...characteristics is its use of imagery involving what he calls the "grotesque body." Contrary to modem canons, the grotesque body is not separated from the...unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits. The stress is laid on those parts of the body that are open to the outside world, that is, the parts...

...Rose apparently cannot cope with what Bakhtin would call the "unfinished" or "grotesque" body, which is "not a closed, completed unit; it is unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits." The aspects of this body are seen in "copulation, pregnancy, childbirth, the throes of death, eating,...

...latitudes. But there is also a grotesque body, which, according to Mikhail Bakhtin in his study of Rabelais, is not a closed, completed unit; it is unfinished, outgrows itself, transgresses its own limits. The stress is laid on those parts of the body that are open to the outside world, that is, the parts...