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The grotesque as a literary issue
SemioticaGrotesque imagery is widely used by all genres and movements of art and literature without exception, but its historical development and theoretical aspects have not been sufficiently studied.
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M/C JournalIntroduction Special effects (SFX) makeup has long been a powerful tool in the world of performance, used to transform, distort, and reimagine the human form in service of storytelling.
Angelique Nairn
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, 2019 Defining “the grotesque” in a concise and objective manner is notoriously difficult. When researching the term for his classic study On the Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature (1982), Geoffrey Galt Harpham observed that the grotesque is hard to pin down because it is defined as being in opposition to something rather than ...
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Investigating the Postcolonial Grotesque in Martin McDonaghʼs A Very Very Very Dark Matter [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Fayūm, 2023 McDonagh is arguably one of the most celebrated yet most controversial of contemporary Anglo-Irish playwrights. His plays have received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike, mostly for featuring graphic violence and obscene dialogues.
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Romantic fantasy and the grotesque in John Keats’s “Lamia”
American and British Studies Annual, 2022 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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Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2023 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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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]
نگره, 2021 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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THE SATIRIC GROTESQUE IN POE’S TALES OF THE GROTESQUE AND ARABESQUE [PDF]
Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Series, 2015 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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Analysis of grotesque effects in the novel The Game of Forgetting by the Bakhtin Approach [PDF]
نقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2023 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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On the Grotesque in American Southern Gothic Fiction: A Case Study of “A Rose for Emily”
Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022 Taking Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” as an example, this paper aims to explore the grotesque in American Southern Gothic Fiction in general, Faulkner's works in particular. Compared with British and the 19th-century American [northern] Gothic
Sijie Hu, Jingdong Zhong
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