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Death and the macabre have always been deeply entrenched in Irish culture: one of its most celebrated sons, Bram Stoker, has granted Ireland a central place in the Gothic literary tradition. The wake and the funeral have a prominent place into the Irish obsession with death and all its paraphernalia. In their book about Irish funerary tradition, Nina Witoszek and Patrick Sheeran state how those traditions are a mark of identity and might be seen as politically charged since the history of Ireland is one of a country divided by opposing loyalties and religious affiliations. Poetry has been regarded as one of the most effective vehicles for the transmission of death traditions in the rich Irish culture, and the modern and contemporary Irish poetry is a remarkable depository of death imagery. By recalling the distinction by Vivian Mercier, who identifies 'macabre' and 'grotesque' as two types of humour typical of the Irish comic tradition (along with the fantastic), the essay discusses the cultural and anthropological matrix of the Irish macabre through examples from contemporary Irish literature, focusing in particular on novels by Patrick McCabe and John Banville.

The paradox that majorities "willingly assent" to the inequalities created by neoliberal globalization are argued to be located in globalized "culture industries" that serve to entertain, distract, & erase critical reason & render the historically arbitrary nature of neoliberal capital as "natural." The production of hegemonic ideologies is asserted to secure reproduction of the system by the universalization of consumerism as an ideology & a set of practices that articulate identities and lifestyles that "willingly assent" to domination. Resistance through be publishing operation of the carnivalesque, the centrality of the grotesque, & transgressive practices that are meant to stand as critiques of globalization unfortunately sustain the very system it would critique as contemporary globalization profits and reproduces itself as it fosters its own anti-cultures. Analysis of the carnival & the grotesque phenomenae addresses the liminal, the grotesque, carnival Brazil, carnival a commodity, & they subcultures of punks, Goths, & serious media forms. The loyalty to the hegemony of capital indicates that Gramsci's analysis must be supplemented to address the trend of the "carnival as the nation of culture" that reproduces the hegemonic system by letting off steam. References. J. Harwell

The grotesque - the exagggerated, the deformed, the monstrous - has been a well-considered subject for students of comparative literature and art. In a major addition to the literature of art, cultural criticism and feminist studies, Mary Russo re-examines the grotesque in the light of gender, exploring the works of Angela Carter David Cronenberg Bahktin Kristeva Freud Zizek. Mary Russo looks at the portrayal of the grotesque in Western culture and by combining the iconographic and the historical, locates the role of the woman's body in the discourse of the grotesque