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Podmiot groteskowy w dramatach Olega Bogajewa

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2020
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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Grotesque Body Image and Carnivalesque Elements in Sevim Burak’s Play Here Is the Head, Here Is the Body, Here Are the Wings

Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi, 2023
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

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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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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Grotesque Realism and Grotesque Body in Bakhtin

Bakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso, 2023
ABSTRACT In this article, we will discuss the Bakhtinian concepts of Grotesque realism and grotesque body from various perspectives. We will begin by exploring the synchronic approaches taken by contemporary linguists and semioticians. Additionally, we will delve into Bakhtin’s own treatment of these concepts, tracing their origins to his doctoral ...
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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 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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