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Grotesque

open access: yesOxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2019
Defining “the grotesque” in a concise and objective manner is notoriously difficult. When researching the term for his classic study On the Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature (1982), Geoffrey Galt Harpham observed that the grotesque is hard to pin down because it is defined as being in opposition to something rather than ...
Rune Graulund
exaly   +7 more sources

Grotesque Realism and Grotesque Body in Bakhtin

open access: yesBakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso, 2023
ABSTRACT In this article, we will discuss the Bakhtinian concepts of Grotesque realism and grotesque body from various perspectives. We will begin by exploring the synchronic approaches taken by contemporary linguists and semioticians. Additionally, we will delve into Bakhtin’s own treatment of these concepts, tracing their origins to his doctoral ...
Francisco Benedito Leite
openaire   +2 more sources

The grotesque as a literary issue

open access: yesSemiotica
Grotesque imagery is widely used by all genres and movements of art and literature without exception, but its historical development and theoretical aspects have not been sufficiently studied.
G. Ospanova   +4 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Put in Humour: Creating Indifference Through the Generation of Grotesque Memes

open access: yesAlternatives
This article proposes a power-focused perspective for International Relations to specifically undertake an examination of grotesque and ridiculous representations of leader figures.
Daniel Beck
exaly   +2 more sources

The Analytical Study of Grotesque in the Works of Painters of the Islamic Revolution With Concentration on the Works of Habibollah Sadeghi, Kazem Chalipa and Hossein Khosrojardi [PDF]

open access: yesنگره, 2021
Grotesque has long been known as a protest and conceptual method, and artists have used grotesque to reveal the hidden truths of the lesser-known truths. Convulsion, revolution and war in Iran in the 1970s and 1980s made a historic fate for this country.
Seyed Reza Hoseini, Fatemeh Heydari
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of grotesque effects in the novel The Game of Forgetting by the Bakhtin Approach [PDF]

open access: yesنقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2023
Title:Analysis of grotesque effects in the novel The Game of Forgetting by the Bakhtin ApproachIntroduction:Grotesque, the artistic-literary discourse, makes technical arrangements for the creation of heterogeneous emotional mixtures and the creation of ...
Razieb Sadrikhanloo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grotesque Encounters in the Travel Writing of Henry James

open access: yesYearbook of English Studies, 2022
:This essay examines the question of why Henry James was so addicted to the use of the word 'picturesque', especially in "Italian Hours", at a time when elsewhere it was regarded as an over-worked, commercial mode of conceptualization.
P. Rawlings
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter [PDF]

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Fayūm, 2023
McDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues.
أمل عبادي
doaj   +1 more source

Covid-19: “Grotesque inequity” that only a quarter of paxlovid courses go to poorer countries

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 2022
CatherineKobutungi, executivedirector of theAfrican Population and Health Research Center, said, “Oral antiviral treatments are easy to administer. They reduce hospital admissions and cut deaths. And they may reduce the likelihood of long covid.
G. Iacobucci
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Grotesque Body Image and Carnivalesque Elements in Sevim Burak’s Play Here Is the Head, Here Is the Body, Here Are the Wings

open access: yesTiyatro 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
doaj   +1 more source

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