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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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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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A Comparative Study of Characteristics of the Grotesque in the Selected Works of Bahman Mohasses and Roy Anderson's Songs from the Second Floor based on Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی, 2023 Grotesque is a type of visual expression that allows the artist to express his or her desired concepts in a different way in art by creating a strange, unusual and unrealistic visual identity.
Reyhaneh Aghabarati +2 more
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3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2020 Grotesque and existentialism in the field of literature generally raise four points. On the one hand, the grotesque has always been associated with negative connotation elements that usually include deformity, death, violence or monstrosity. In fact, the
J. Seach +3 more
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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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The kirtimukha in ancient Indian art and how it came to be associated with the ‘grotesque’
The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design, 2020 In this paper is an attempt, through the lens of visual-rhetoric, towards understanding the origin of the k?rtimukha in ancient Indian art, its iconographic evolution and how this motif functions symbolically at manifold levels- from the ontological (as ...
Archishman Sarker
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The Grotesque in Frankenstein in Baghdad: Between Humanity and Monstrosity
, 2020 This paper analyzes Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2018) with a special emphasis on the grotesque bodily images of the monster, the novel’s exploration of justice, and the question of violence. I draw on the theoretical framework of the Russian
Rawad Alhashmi
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On Being Ugly in Public: The Politics of the Grotesque in Naked Protests
Hypatia, 2020 Sexualized naked protest using young and attractive women's bodies have long featured in the repertoire of protest tools for interventions in public space. Antirape feminist groups and nonhuman-animal rights activist groups, in particular, have mobilized
Alexandra Fanghanel
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Horrible Imaginings: Jan Kott, the Grotesque, and “Macbeth, Macbeth”
Multicultural Shakespeare, 2021 Throughout Jan Kott’s Shakespeare Our Contemporary, a keyword for the combination of philosophical, aesthetic and modern qualities in Shakespearean drama is “grotesque.” This term is also relevant to other influential studies of early-modern drama ...
James Tink
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Satiric grotesque in V.Visotsky’s creative work
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016 The article attempts to trace the influence of the grotesque satire on the work of Vladimir Vysotsky and clarify functions of satirical grotesque in his poetry. For this it is given a general definition of the grotesque as an artistic category, and it is
Soldatkina Anastasiya Vladimirovna
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