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How to (mis)use language: humor, creativity and lexical creation in Rikki Ducornet’s The Stain, The Fountains of Neptune and Phosphor in Dreamland

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2021
This article questions the link between creativity, lexical creation and humor in literary texts, more specifically in three of Rikki Ducornet’s novels: The Stain, The Fountains of Neptune and Phosphor in Dreamland.
Elodie Trolé
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Grotesque Body Image and Carnivalesque Elements in Sevim Burak’s Play Here Is the Head, Here Is the Body, Here Are the Wings

Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi, 2023
This study initially focuses on the grotesque body images which Bakhtin constructed on organs such as the mouth, dismembered body parts, anus, and reproductive organs by taking Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel (1564), one of the most remarkable works ...
Arzu Özyön
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Discovery of the [Queer] Minjung Tradition: The Sinchon Station IDAHOBIT Billboard Vandalism and Queer Korean Politics of Visibility [PDF]

International Journal of Korean History, 2023
This theoretical piece discusses the Sinchon Station IDAHOBIT billboard vandalism case and the collective action that occurred in reaction to it in August 2020 to open more avenues and perspectives for studying queer visibility politics in South Korea. A
Raymond Kyooyung Ra
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Humor i to nyere norske diktbildebøker

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2021
Humour in Two Contemporary Norwegian Poetry Picturebooks: Pling i bollen and 123 for barske barn Abstract: This article examines visual and verbal humour in two contemporary Norwegian poetry picturebooks for children.
Berit Westergaard Bjørlo
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Slang in animated cartoons: Translation peculiarities

LingBaW, 2019
The research focuses on analysing the function of slang in modern cartoons (Madagascar 2, Kung Fu Panda, Shrek, Open Season, Cars) as well as translation strategies used to convey accurate meaning.
Kateryna Bondarenko
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Cosmopolitan spaces of international film festivals: Cannes Film Festival and the French Riviera

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2018
Since its inception, the Cannes Film Festival was envisioned as a continuation, expansion and enhancement of the Riviera’s long-established cosmopolitan, carnivalesque and exclusive space.
Dorota Ostrowska
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Vampires and School Girls: High School Jinks on the Hellmouth [PDF]

Slayage, 2001
Buffy The Vampire Slayer treads an entertaining if uneasy course between conservatism and contemporary feminist girl power. On the one hand the weekly successful tackling of monsters emerging from the hell mouth denotes a conservative underwriting of the
Gina Wisker
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Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis: A Testimony to Life in the Margins

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2021
Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis focuses an expository spotlight on the marginalized voices that proliferate in large metropolises and that have been, to a large extent, imperceptible to mainstream academe.
Subin T. Daniel, Binod Mishra
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The Matrix:

Crossings, 2021
Film as a visual art form can be understandably perused as a form of “visual literature” where, under proper scrutiny, literary theories and critical concepts may be found intervening significantly.
Md. Mahbubul Hasan Nayeem
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The aesthetic impact of carnival celebrations on fabric and fashion design

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Fabrics and costumes are considered a vivid visual and cultural phenomenon that expresses the body, identity, and belonging. This research analyzes how elements such as color, form, material, technique, and decorative accessories are employed to produce
Reem Fouad Sabri Hammadi , Ruya Hamid Yassin   +1 more
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