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A Study on the Grotesque Features Represented in the ‘Fox Sister’ Folktale

The Research of the Korean Classic, 2022
This study investigates the “inconvenience” and “uncertainty” of the Fox Sister folktale through the concept of “the grotesque.” Beyond the visual grotesque of a specific scene, I tried to examine the grotesque in the mere existence of the fox sister and
Jun-hee Kim
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Images of the Grotesque in "Berenice": Visual Representations of Poe's Tale from Nineteenth-Century Illustrations to Comic Books

The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 2021
:There is no doubt that "Berenice" is one of Poe's most disturbing stories; much of this disturbance lies upon its "too horrible" subject—Poe's words—in tune with the aesthetics of the grotesque that were present in certain publications of the nineteenth
Ana González-Rivas Fernández
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Profanity and the Grotesque in Indra Sinha's Animal's People

Interventions, 2016
A. Holoch
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Long Takes and the Grotesque in Ettore Scola’s Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976)

The Italianist
This article examines the complex cluster of similar long takes that bookend Ettore Scola’s Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976). It investigates the role played by the long takes, individually and together, in enhancing the film’s grotesque humour and ...
Edward Bowen
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The grotesque knot of the symptom: Heterogeneity and mutability

Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, 2020
The present paper aims to shed light on some post-oedipal moments of the Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis. Going beyond the stereotypical opposition between the oedipal psychoanalysis and the anti-oedipal schizoanalysis, it endeavors to reinvestigate the

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‘Nothing is more tragic than the grotesque’

Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts
Samuel Beckett has been seen as ‘the last modernist’ (Cronin 1997: iii). His writing shows an enduring concern with matters of mortality and material and existential decay, something he shares with postwar modernism.
I. Krishna
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On Classification and the Grotesque: Theorising Para-Genre in Early Modern Nonsense Verse and Montaigne’s Essais

Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 2019
It is tempting to over-simplify the status of grotesque literatures in relation to genre. This paper moves beyond the binary of adherence and violation that often frames discussions of taxonomy, and instead suggests that the grotesque is vital in the ...
Katrina L. Spadaro
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The Homo-Cameleopard: Poe’s Political Animals and the Grotesque

The Edgar Allan Poe Review
This article takes up two somewhat obscure tales in the Poe canon—“Epimanes,” which was subsequently retitled “Four Beasts in One—The Homo-Cameleopard,” and “The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade”—for their explicit use of human-animal hybrids ...
Stephen Rachman
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"Severance at Any Price": Pregnancy, Birth Control, and the Grotesque in If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

The Faulkner Journal
:Faulkner's 1939 novel If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem interweaves two unrelated stories of pregnancy that focus and amplify contemporary cultural anxieties about gender and the body.
S. Hardy
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Spectacles of Success and the Grotesque

The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies
This article critically examines Shashi Tharoor’s Show Business as a postcolonial satire that interrogates the spectacle of fame, the illusion of merit, and the ideological construction of success in contemporary India.
Jebaraj Kabriel, J. Raj
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