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Banjanski theatre of absurd: The Master Is Coming Tomorrow of Petar Saric in the highlight of Becket's philosophy of waiting [PDF]
Baština, 2016 The novel's title itself The Master Is Coming Tomorrow indicates to the idea it is about modern novel, which is of more avant-guardistic than realistic type.
Jeftimijević-Mihajlović Marija S.
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Apocalyptic Collapse and the Absurd in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2020 This article analyzes the way Kurt Vonnegut develops an aesthetics of the grotesque to examine the irresistible attraction humankind feels for self-destruction.
Ruth Fialho
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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L’idiota Puškin e il saggio Stalin. Aneddotica e strategie di demitizzazione in Charms e Prigov
eSamizdat, 2023 The avant-garde literary group OBĖRIU, with its poetics of the absurd, alogism and grotesque, had a great influence on later Soviet Russian literature and on neo-avant-garde movements as well. This paper investigates the connection between OBĖRIU and the
Alice Bravin
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Cortázar et Saramago : la représentation de la dictature et l’affirmation de l’engagement
Interlitteraria, 2017 . Cortázar and Saramago: the Representation of Dictatorship and the Strength of Engagement. Julio Cortázar and José Saramago create the poetics of compromise focused on a critique of the Argentinian and Portuguese dictatorships as paradigms of oppression
Celina Martins
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Les avatars de l'absurde dans "Mendiants et orgueilleux" d'Albert Cossery [PDF]
, 2004 This article deals with the notion of the absurd and explores its interpretation from a non-Western point of view in a novel by the Egyptian writer Albert Cossery, 'Mendiants et orgueilleux'.
Hafez-Ergaut, Agnès
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Absurd as the Core of Meaning-Making Strategies in James Ensor’s Work [PDF]
Художественная культураJames Ensor (1860–1949), whose oeuvre lies at the origins of modernism, consistently transforms the semantic functions of the absurd in a number of his works, thereby establishing the foundations for a new stage in the development of this rhetorical ...
Loukitcheva Krassimira L.
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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