ABSTRACT It is tempting to over-simplify the status of grotesque literatures in relation to genre. This paper moves beyond the binary of adherence and violation that often frames discussions of taxonomy, and instead suggests that the grotesque is vital in the construction of generic categories. Using two examples of early modern grotesque literature, seventeenth-century nonsense verse and Montaigne’s Essais, this paper clarifies the relationship between genre and grotesque texts through examining three principles that underlie the grotesque: relationality, framing and conflict. Finally, it advances a theory of grotesque ‘para-genre’ to suggest a fertile reciprocity between genre and grotesque texts. This paper concludes that the antagonism often ascribed to the two is misplaced, and that genre is in fact sustained and reified through acts of taxonomic violation.

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论分类与怪诞：早期现代废话和蒙田的《 Essais》的理论体裁理论

摘要过度简化与流派相关的怪诞文学的地位很诱人。本文超越了通常围绕分类法进行讨论的坚持和违背的二元性，相反，它提出了怪诞对于构建通用类别至关重要。本文以两个早期的现代怪诞文学作品为例，即十七世纪的废话经文和蒙田·埃格塞斯（Montaigne's Essais），通过考察构成怪诞现象的三项原则阐明了体裁和怪诞文本之间的关系：关系，框架和冲突。最后，它提出了一种怪诞的“准体裁”理论，以提出一种体裁与怪诞的文本之间的互惠互利。本文得出的结论是，经常归因于两者的对立是错误的，