An Instance of the Grotesque from Smollett to Dickens: Roderick (Random), Barnaby (Rudge) and the Raven [PDF]
, 2014 International audienceSmollett's influence on Dickens has been frequently commented upon, 1 and goes deeper than one might infer from the passing allusions made by David Copperfield, who, echoing the views of his creator, expresses several times his ...
Rouhette, Anne
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Irish L’humour Noir: Peter Foott’s The Carpenter and His Clumsy Wife
ABEI Journal, 2013 In this essay I read Irish director Peter Foott’s short film, The Carpenter and his Clumsy Wife (2005), through Oscar Wilde’s aesthetic theory, “The Decay of Lying” (1891).
Matthew Schultz
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The Dry and the Wet: Cultural Configuration in Clarice Lispector's Novels [PDF]
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Waltz as one of the spaces of grotesque in Alfred Schnittke's works [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Akademije Umetnosti, 2018 Humour, as one of the most vital phenomena of human nature and culture, has maintained the status of a special category, which evades being defined accurately.
Ilišević Tijana
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Grotesque in Attar's stories of madmen [PDF]
تاریخ ادبیات, 2013 Grotesque is a technique or style in art and literature, and various and complex concepts and domains have been defined for it. Some have referred to it as "mixed humor" and have listed characteristics such as dissonance, horror, exaggeration and ...
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Repugnance as Performance Error: The Role of Disgust in Bioethical Intuitions [PDF]
, 2016 An influential argument in bioethics involves appeal to disgust, calling on us to take it seriously as a moral guide (e.g. Kass, Miller, Kahan). Some argue, for example, that genetic enhancement, especially via human reproductive cloning, is repellant or
May, Joshua
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Poe and the Modern Grotesque [PDF]
452ºF, 2009 The grotesque is an aesthetic category that combines humour and the horrific (in its very different meanings). From its first carnivalesque manifestation, in which laughter had a very clear festive hue, the grotesque has been evolving towards positions ...
Roas, David
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An Examination of Halloween Literature And its Effect on the Horror Genre [PDF]
This thesis will explore the effect of Halloween narratives in the wider horror genre. This will be accomplished by means of a close textual analysis with novels such as The Halloween Tree (1972) and films such as Trick ‘r Treat (2008) and Boys in the ...
Wylde, Benjamin
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Grotesques and arabesques figurative language in the French decorative art of XVII-XVIII centuries
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2016 The article analyzes the imagery of grotesque and arabesque, which were an important primary source of ornamental language of French decorative arts in the XVII-XVIII centuries. Grotesque reproduced murals (fresco) of ancient buildings (caves) discovered
D G Tkach
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A corona-carnival? A carnivalesque interpretation of (im)mobilities under COVID-19 lockdowns. [PDF]
Politics (Oxf), 2023 Casas-Cortés M, Cobarrubias S.
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