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Marketing and the theatre of the absurd

open access: yesMarketing Theory
The scientific tradition in marketing research has alienated marketing practitioners from academics. As a counterpoint, we argue that theory from the humanities, especially theatre and drama studies, can provide meaningful insights into consumer culture.
Oscar Ahlberg, Jonatan Sodergren
exaly   +3 more sources

Understanding the Absurd Inside

open access: yesEtkileşim, 2022
Lost in a basement, or locked up in himself, a man contemplates the horror of his scandalous life. The more he struggles to see, the more he becomes ridiculous. His hatred grows of his inability to exist as a complete being.
Merve Kaptan , Pınar Karaca
doaj   +2 more sources

LONELINESS AND LACK OF COMMUNICATION IN ABSURD PLAYS

open access: yesLanguage Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2023
Loneliness and lack of communication are common themes in absurd drama. This paper explores the portrayal of loneliness and lack of communication in absurd drama through an analysis of selected works of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Eugène Ionesco ...
Jihad Jaafar Waham
doaj   +2 more sources

Management education and the theatre of the absurd

open access: yesManagement Learning, 2019
In this article, we recommend the drama of theatre of the absurd as a novel space for critically reflecting upon management and management education as shaped by the forces of emotion, irrationality and conformism rather than reason.
Ken Starkey, Silvia Cinque, Sue Tempest
exaly   +2 more sources

The Pepe the Frog meme: an examination of social, political, and cultural implications through the tradition of the Darwinian Absurd

open access: yesJournal for Cultural Research, 2019
This article offers an examination of the meme known as Pepe the Frog. In 2015, the Pepe the Frog meme was crowned ‘biggest meme of the year’ by Tumblr. However, only one year later, the Pepe character was branded as a hate symbol by the U.S.
Laura Glitsos, James Hall
exaly   +2 more sources

Approaches to the Problem of Literary Authenticity. A Historical Outline (I) [PDF]

open access: yesPhilologia, 2022
Starting from the ancient concept of mimesis to the view on authenticity of realist writers, this article aims to follow the evolution of approaches to the problem of authenticity within the framework of literary history. We will delimit the character of
Cristina DICUSAR
doaj   +1 more source

TRAUMA RĂZBOIULUI ȘI CRIZA REPREZENTĂRII UMANULUI ÎN AVANGARDA LITERARĂ ȘI ARTISTICĂ: URMUZ ȘI MAX ERNST / WAR TRAUMA AND THE CRISIS OF HUMAN REPRESENTATION IN THE LITERARY AND ART AVANT-GARDE: URMUZ AND MAX ERNST [PDF]

open access: yesIncursiuni în imaginar, 2023
The present work proposes an applied analysis, by bringing together the Romanian literary avant-garde with the European artistic one, a reunion represented by the text Emil Gayk, a text written by the precursor of the Romanian avant-garde, Urmuz, and the
Alexandru Foitoș
doaj   +1 more source

Absurd and Paradoxical Proverbs in Tuvan: Ontological and Logical Aspects of the Categorization of Proverbial Semantics

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. The article deals with absurd and paradoxical proverbs resulting from the categorization of proverbial semantics according to the criterion of ‘relation to reality’ in the ontological or logical aspects. Goals.
Evgeny E. Ivanov
doaj   +1 more source

Přijde gestapák na inspekci: K pojmům komika a (černý) humor nejen u Vladimíra Boreckého [PDF]

open access: yesSvět Literatury, 2023
The aim of the following article is to define the concepts of the comic and (dark) humour employing the work of Vladimír Borecký, a Czech scholar and author of the typology of the comic.
Ondřej Vinš
doaj   +1 more source

Absurd geographies of resilience and justice

open access: yesClimate and Development, 2023
This paper problematizes how scholars understand the relation between resilience and justice. Critical and applied scholarship tends to dismiss resilience as a neoliberal barrier to justice, or assume it necessarily advances justice outcomes.
Kevin Grove   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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