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Grotesque Encounters in the Travel Writing of Henry James

Yearbook 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
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MARTIN AMIS AND THE POSTMODERN GROTESQUE

Modern Language Review, 2022
:The grotesque in carnival is characterized by the inversion of hierarchies and the incongruous juxtaposition of what is incompatible. These are also features of postmodernism, although in postmodernity the grotesque transformations are now in the world ...
Brian Crews
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Grotesque eroticism in the Danmei genre: the case of Lucifer's Club in Chinese cyberspace

Porn Studies, 2016
Shih-chen Chao
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Emotional Cues’ Effects on Grotesque Advertising

Australasian Marketing Journal, 2021
A growing literature is examining the potential of grotesque advertising. The aim of this study is to examine whether curiosity or boredom cues in a grotesque advertisement are more effective at enhancing brand attitude and how this effect is moderated ...
Argho Bandyopadhyay, F. Septianto, K. Nallaperuma, Bodo Lang   +3 more
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Grotesque logic: Catalan carnival utopias and the politics of laughter

Visual Studies, 2020
This article explores the openness of the grotesque body as a problem space to theorise links between Carnival and political discourse. Data from ethnographic field research on Carnival in the Catalan city of Vilanova i la Geltrú is interpreted through ...
B. Erickson
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Introduction: Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature

, 2020
The introduction provides an overview of the intellectual context for the thematic issue and outlines the complexities around the genesis of Achille Mbembe's 'Provisional Notes on the Postcolony' (1992). It examines how Mbembe's work ushered in a new era
Sarah Arens, Joseph Ford
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MEMES, MONSTERS, AND THE DIGITAL GROTESQUE

Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque is a comprehensive exploration of grotesque aesthetics that have pervaded the post-digital era. This critical examination spans a variety of digital cultural production, including memes, animated cartoons ...
Cristina Moreno-Almeida
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Grotesques

2020
The portrayal of dysmorphologies, monsters, and other grotesques entered the horror category early, and the films were filled with exploitation, gruesomeness, and degeneracy. Physicians must be intrigued by the underlying nature of the major anomalies depicted on the screen.
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On Classification and the Grotesque: Theorising Para-Genre in Early Modern Nonsense Verse and Montaigne’s Essais

Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 2019
It is tempting to over-simplify the status of grotesque literatures in relation to genre. This paper moves beyond the binary of adherence and violation that often frames discussions of taxonomy, and instead suggests that the grotesque is vital in the ...
Katrina L. Spadaro
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Grotesque Touch

2021
In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, television shows, novels, short stories, poems, book covers, and paintings, King shows how contemporary media reuse salacious and stereotypical depictions of relationships between women living ...
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