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The elicitation of horror, comic amusement, and awe are the leading functions of the grotesque today. The grotesque is able to support these seemingly disparate functions because structurally it is rooted in the violation, transgression, or jamming of our standing concepts and categories. With horror, categorical anomaly takes the form of impurity; with comic amusement, the form of incongruity; and with awe, that of the miraculous. Given this preliminary taxonomy of the grotesque today, it is tempting to ask why we currently seem so obsessed with horror, humor, and awe. The easy answer is that we live at a time when our standing categories appear buffeted from every direction. The grotesque provides a ready source of intense emotion and novelty. Almost by definition, it is a departure from the ordinary and, therefore, a natural target for development as the entertainment industry expands exponentially.
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