Results 41 to 50 of about 100,423 (215)
Lesson Plan For Teaching Flannery O\u27Connor\u27s A Good Man Is Hard To Find [PDF]
, 2014 Suitable for high school and college and university classes. Developed by a Swarthmore College student, Adriana Obiols Roca, with feedback from Professor Peter Schmidt, as a final assignment in English 71D, The Short Story in the U.S., spring 2014 ...
Obiols Roca, Adriana M., , \u2716 +1 more
core +1 more source
Game of Thrones: imagined world combines romantic and grotesque visions of Middle Ages [PDF]
, 2018 OU historian Richard Marsden examines how longstanding assumptions about the Middle Ages have shaped the world presented in HBO's Gamer of ...
Marsden, Richard
core
The Fantastic-Grotesque in Beh’Āzin’s “The Snake Stone” [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغیThe present study offers a reading of “The Snake Stone,” penned by Mahmũd Etemādzāde aka. Beh’Āzin (1915-2006), as a tale of fantastic-grotesque. With a preliminary discussion on the grotesque and fantastic in relation to non-western literature, the ...
Nahid Shahbazi Moghaddam
doaj +1 more source
The Grotesque as an Instrument of Sociopolitical Critique in Rawi Hage’s Migrant Fiction
Canada and Beyond, 2018 This essay considers the function of the grotesque mode in Rawi Hage’s novels Cockroach (2008) and Carnival (2012). The grotesque is an artistic form with which Hage draws attention to the predicament of the class of poor and disadvantaged new immigrants
Hilde Staels
doaj +1 more source
A utilitarian antagonist: the zombie in popular video games [PDF]
, 2015 This article takes as its starting point the prevalence of the zombie in video games. I argue that, although the zombie games often superficially resemble filmic texts in their use of aesthetic and narrative, they must be understood, less as a set of ...
A Tudor +11 more
core +2 more sources
Acromegaly, Mr Punch and caricature. [PDF]
, 1996 The origin of Mr Punch from the Italian Pulcinella of the Commedia dell'arte is well known but his feature, large hooked nose, protruding chin, kyphosis and sternal protrusion all in an exaggerated form also suggest the caricature of an acromegalic. This
Armstrong R +20 more
core +2 more sources
Reading the Visual Aspects of the Grotesque Body in the Iranian Cinema and Theater Posters (1390s) [PDF]
هنرهای زیبا. هنرهای تجسمیGrotesque is an artistic and literary form that has appeared in contemporary art, having a history as long as the 16th century. According to Mikhail Bakhtin, a 20th-century literary theorist, a critical approach is formed in the official space of society,
Amir Hossein Pormehr Yabandeh +1 more
doaj +1 more source
“A time to be born, and a time to die.” [PDF]
, 2013 While surgeons were well acquainted with the horrors of a field hospital in the aftermath of a grand battle like Gettysburg, the civilians of the North were woefully unprepared for the carnage at play in the halls of their local institutions and homes ...
Rudy, John M.
core +2 more sources
Excess of Sensuality: Poetics of Grotesque in Plays of Nina Sadur
Научный диалогThis article explores the poetics of the grotesque in the works of Nina Sadur, focusing on her dramatic collections “Chudnaya Baba” [Strange Woman] and “Obmorok” [Fainting], alongside a series of interviews and her writings on creativity.
Xiang Yu
doaj +1 more source
Teaching and Professional Fellowship Report 2006/7 : The Vakhtangov Technique [PDF]
, 2007 Exploring a more sophisticated, coherent delivery of the Vakhtangov technique within the Drama Centre curriculum. The Vakhtangov system is centred on emotional memory and naturalistic modes of acting known as 'fantastic realism', in radical contrast to ...
Mirochnikov, Oleg
core