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Featural and configurational processes in the recognition of faces of different familiarity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Previous research suggests that face recognition may involve both configurational and piecemeal (featural) processing. To explore the relationship between these processing modes, we examined the patterns of recognition impairment produced by blurring ...
Collishaw, S M, Hole, G J
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Grappling with the grotesque [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2015
Frances S. Connelly’s The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture: The Image at Play is an exciting new book that ruptures art-historical conventions as much as does her subject, the grotesque.
Jenny Anger
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The grotesque body in Ian McEwan’s short stories

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2017
The subject matter and imagery prevalent in Ian McEwan’s early fiction are shockingly unpleasant and justifiably notorious for their portrayal of grotesqueries to the extent that their significance has been ignored or undermined compared to his later ...
Nahid Shahbazi Moghadam   +1 more
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Performing Shakespeare in Contemporary Japan: The Yamanote Jijosha’s The Tempest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In considering the Yamanote Jijosha’s The Tempest, this paper explores the significance of performing Shakespeare in contemporary Japan. The company’s The Tempest reveals to contemporary Japanese audiences the ambiguity of Shakespeare’s text by ...
Hamana, Emi
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Grotesque themes as Representatives of Reality

open access: yesOrientalia Suecana, 2023
This study examines the themes and distinctive features of the grotesque as manifested in the literary works of Algerian author Waciny Laredj (Wasīnī al-Aʿraj), who depicts the Algerian reality through an experimental form of novelistic writing.
Basilius Bawardi, Reem Ghanayim
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Grotesque and Southern Gothic in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019
This article offers a post-southernist reading that challenges and problematizes the impacts of haunted past of the American South with implications of violence embodied by Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the ...
Hüseyin Altındiş
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Grotesque elements in two selected short stories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study aims to identify and analyse grotesque elements in two selected short stories: The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker (1847–1912), an Irish writer, and The Cursed Citadel by an Iranian writer, Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951).
Haghighi, Hana, Talif, Rosli
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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s and Flannery O’Connor’s Use of the Grotesque: Irrational or Mysterious? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Both Fyodor Dostoevsky and Flannery O’Connor used the grotesque to portray their beliefs about human nature. Both believed that mystery is a crucial element of truth and humanity’s understanding is limited.
Marken, Kyra E
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The contemporary grotesque in Matéi Vișniec’s theater

open access: yesTravessias, 2019
The laughter, according to Bergson, speaks to the intelligence. For being a purely human phenomenon, for the laughter to happen, there must be a perception of the comic effect and its comprehension.
Camylla Galante
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Gargoyles on Glatfelter Hall

open access: yes, 2006
When one walks around the campus of Gettysburg College, Glatfelter Hall towers above them, as one of the College’s most commanding edifices. One takes notice of the arched doorways, sunken windows, and the giant bell tower whose occupant chimes on the ...
Anthony, Katherine D.
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