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The grotesque: A subversive narrative technique of Angela Carter
Literacy Trek, 2021 Angela Carter’s subversive narrative techniques help her establish an authentic narrative atmosphere in which she is able to demythologise and dephilosophise traditional codes.
Çelik Ekmekçi
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Aesthetic value: beauty, ugliness and incoherence [PDF]
, 1997 [FIRST PARAGRAPHS] From Plato through Aquinas to Kant and beyond beauty has traditionally been considered the paradigmatic aesthetic quality. Thus, quite naturally following Socrates' strategy in The Meno, we are tempted to generalize from our ...
Kieran, M.
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On Being Ugly in Public: The Politics of the Grotesque in Naked Protests
Hypatia, 2020 Sexualized naked protest using young and attractive women's bodies have long featured in the repertoire of protest tools for interventions in public space. Antirape feminist groups and nonhuman-animal rights activist groups, in particular, have mobilized
Alexandra Fanghanel
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The Grotesque and The Grotesque Style (in the Short Story Summer Plays by Dušan Mitana) [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2014 The study in its two parts presents an attempt of defining and specifying problematic concepts of the grotesque and the grotesque style. Having considered the works by Wolfgang Kayser and the line of other authors updating his theory of the grotesque ...
Jakub Melník
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Grotesque in Bunin’s Prose and Journalist Essays
Филологический класс, 2020 The following article contains a study of grotesque forms of poetry and writing used by Bunin for portraying the state of Russian life from 1916 to 1920s based on the contents of his two stories and three journalist works.
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Latin American Literary Review, 2022 This article examines the use of the grotesque in Griselda Gambaro’s play, Nada que ver, and her novel Nada que ver con otra historia. The discussion first establishes key intertextual connections between Gambaro’s work and other literary and theatrical ...
Guadalupe Gerardi
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The Culture of the Grotesque in Old Icelandic literature: The Saga of the Sworn Brothers
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2019 : According to scholarly consensus on the development of Old Icelandic literature, The Saga of the Sworn Brothers (Fóstbræðra saga) is an example of the earliest sagas.
Helga Kress
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Grotescul geniului şi geniul grotesc [PDF]
Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2015 The pages of this article contain a hermeneutical analysis of the grotesque into Eugen Ionescu’s biographical study Tragic and Grotesque Life of Victor Hugo.
Alunița Cofan
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Journal of Language and LiteratureGrotesque is an image or aesthetic form that presents a nuance of bizarre and peculiar. Commonly understood, that grotesque may posits negative connotation and horrible forms of symbol lies in works of arts, architecture, and even in literary works ...
Naufaludin Anam, Nurfathi Robi
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Economie del grottesco nell’opera letteraria di Balzac: Le cousin Pons
Itinera, 2013 The essay focuses on relations between grotesque and melodrama in Balzac’s literary works. Unlike Victor Hugo, the grotesque takes up a specific function in the narrative and dramatic economy of Balzac’s novels.
Michele Bertolini
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