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The Grotesque and The Grotesque Style (in the Short Story Summer Plays by Dušan Mitana) [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2014 The study in its two parts presents an attempt of defining and specifying problematic concepts of the grotesque and the grotesque style. Having considered the works by Wolfgang Kayser and the line of other authors updating his theory of the grotesque ...
Jakub Melník
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The Monstrous and the Sportive Grotesque in the early Eighteenth Century [PDF]
, 1993 Chapter One explores the classification of the grotesque and its disruptive role in natural and philosophical taxonomic systems. I argue that the grotesque served as a useful repository for the marvellous, the hybrid and the preternatural. Further, as a
McCormick, Ian David
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Children's humour and the grotesque pleasures in school mealtime socialisation [PDF]
, 2021 In this paper, we argue for two propositions: children are socialised and guided to become competent members of school mealtime community, and children have the capacity to modify and challenge existing practices.
Stone, Samantha, Murakami, Kyoko
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The Grotesque as an Instrument of Sociopolitical Critique in Rawi Hage’s Migrant Fiction
Canada and Beyond, 2018 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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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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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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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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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 Familial Grotesque in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2019 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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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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