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The Familial Grotesque in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim [PDF]
Framing the representation of the family in Shirley Lim’s poetry against the concept of the grotesque, this essay aims to demonstrate how the aesthetic category is arguably enlisted as a symbol referring to the trope – or more accurately, with ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
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THE SATIRIC GROTESQUE IN POE’S TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE [PDF]
This paper surveys the grotesque which takes a principal position in the American literature since the nineteenth to the present. It outlines the evolution of grotesque from art to literary form, and its meaning that is combined from different critical works.
Elaheh Soofastaei, Sayyed Ali Mirenayat
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Romantic fantasy and the grotesque in John Keats’s “Lamia”
The present article examines the notions of fantasy, illusion and logic in Keats’s romance Lamia (1819) from the perspective of the aesthetic and literary category of the grotesque. In his text Keats puts the grotesque to two uses.
Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys
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The grotesque is a form of humor in which contradictory concepts are intertwined and first emerged in the West. Although initially a genre used in the fine arts, it later played an important role in world literature and influenced non-Western literature.
Meltem Kılıç, Arsun Uras
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Grappling with the grotesque [PDF]
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 Analytical Study of Grotesque in the Works of Painters of the Islamic Revolution With Concentration on the Works of Habibollah Sadeghi, Kazem Chalipa and Hossein Khosrojardi [PDF]
Grotesque has long been known as a protest and conceptual method, and artists have used grotesque to reveal the hidden truths of the lesser-known truths. Convulsion, revolution and war in Iran in the 1970s and 1980s made a historic fate for this country.
Seyed Reza Hoseini, Fatemeh Heydari
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Podmiot groteskowy w dramatach Olega Bogajewa
The article analyses three dramas written by Oleg Bogayev (The Russian National Postal Service. A Room of Laughter for a Lonely Pensioner; Bashmachkin and Sansara).
Agnieszka Juchniewicz
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Analysis of grotesque effects in the novel The Game of Forgetting by the Bakhtin Approach [PDF]
Title:Analysis of grotesque effects in the novel The Game of Forgetting by the Bakhtin ApproachIntroduction:Grotesque, the artistic-literary discourse, makes technical arrangements for the creation of heterogeneous emotional mixtures and the creation of ...
Razieb Sadrikhanloo +3 more
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This study initially focuses on the grotesque body images which Bakhtin constructed on organs such as the mouth, dismembered body parts, anus, and reproductive organs by taking Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel (1564), one of the most remarkable works ...
Arzu Özyön
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The Grotesque as an Instrument of Sociopolitical Critique in Rawi Hage’s Migrant Fiction
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
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