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Kairos and Carnival: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rhetorical and Ethical Christian Vision

Religions, 2018
The term kairos has been used to mean, alternatively, right timing or proportion in Ancient Greek rhetoric, by Jesus to refer to the Christian eschaton and by Paul Tillich and modern liberation theologians to refer to the breakthrough of the divine into ...
Ian Bekker
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Monster und Metamorphosen: Groteske Körper im zeitgenössischen Tanz

Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2020
Over the last twenty years contemporary dance’s protagonists have been experimenting with the body as a dynamic material and probing possibilities of avoiding representative images.
Susanne Foellmer
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GROTESQUE COMPONENTS IN CHARLES DICKENS’ TO BE TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT AND MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON’S EVELINE’S VISITANT

Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2023
This paper attempts to define the grotesque and its primary literary features before examining the grotesque components in two Victorian authors' works with the goal of separating their approaches to the grotesque based on gender.
Suhair Fuaad Hajo
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The grotesque as a tool: Deconstructing the imperial narrative in two commedie all’italiana by Ettore Scola

Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2014
Il grottesco come strumento: decostruendo la narrazione imperialista in due commedie all’italiana di Ettore Scola In questo articolo l’autrice esamina due commedie all’italiana di Ettore Scola, Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l’amico ...
Linde Luijnenburg
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The grotesque: A subversive narrative technique of Angela Carter

Literacy Trek, 2021
Angela Carter’s subversive narrative techniques help her establish an authentic narrative atmosphere in which she is able to demythologise and dephilosophise traditional codes.
Çelik Ekmekçi
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The Democratic Grotesque [PDF]

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2021
How do we understand the presence of the grotesque in negotiations of democratic life after a revolution? At the peak of procedural democratic consolidation, carnivalesque revelries in Tunisia became the object of public aporia and repugnance. The dissimilar interpretations of these revelries across generations evince an agonistic process of prizing ...
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Il brutto e il grottesco tra Macbeth e Luisa Miller

Itinera, 2013
In Rosenkranz’s definition, the grotesque is a particular kind of ugly. In the 20th Century it gain thus its own dignity and we can say that the grotesque is the form of survival for the ugly in our age (also the kitch inherits some aspects).
Gabriele Scaramuzza
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Aesthetic value: beauty, ugliness and incoherence [PDF]

, 1997
[FIRST PARAGRAPHS] From Plato through Aquinas to Kant and beyond beauty has traditionally been considered the paradigmatic aesthetic quality. Thus, quite naturally following Socrates' strategy in The Meno, we are tempted to generalize from our ...
Kieran, M.
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El acapulcalipsis en Cacapulco: humor grotesco y apocalipsis en Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes

Caravelle, 2015
This paper analyzes the humorous rewriting of the apocalyptic discourse in Cristóbal Nonato (1987) by Carlos Fuentes. The revolutionnary utopia of the traditional apocalyptic discourse is questionned through the novel’s radical scepticism.
Brigitte Adriaensen
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Angela Carter’s «Puss-in-Boots»: Commedia dell’arte meets the Bluebeard story

Forma Breve, 2004
In the short-story «Puss-in-Boots» Angela Carter rewrites Charles Perrault’s classic «Le Chat Botté». She enhances the comic element by constructing it in the vein of commedia dell’arte which at the end subverts the up-coming uxoricide and the ...
Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia
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