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Make Me Walk, Make Me Talk, Do Whatever You Please: Barbie and Exceptions [PDF]
, 2013 Barbie represents an aspiration to an ideal and also a never-ending mutability. Barbie is the perfect woman, and she is also grotesque, plasticized hyperreality, presenting a femininity exaggerated to the point of caricature. Barbie’s marketplace success,
Tushnet, Rebecca
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Engaging students and fostering interactions can be a challenge in large enrollment, foundational‐level, undergraduate anatomy classes. Despite the active learning environment of the anatomy laboratory, students often struggle to find study partners or even speak to fellow learners in a large classroom.
Kristin Stover +2 more
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Dissecting nature and grotesque elements in Tunku Halim's Juriah's Song [PDF]
, 2016 Tunku Halim's novella Juriah's Song (2008) revolves around the protagonist, Akri, and his encounter with the ghost of his late girlfriend, Juriah. Categorised as a horror genre, the characters and settings of this novella serve as important ground where ...
Ahmad Jafni, Nur Fatin Syuhada +2 more
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The Macabre on the Margins: A Study of the Fantastic Terrors of the Fin de Siècle [PDF]
, 2012 It demonstrates that in spite of the dominant associations of fantastic literature with horror, terror, as the marginal and marginalized fear of the unknown, with its uncanny, sublime and suspenseful qualities, holds a definitive presence in fin de ...
Beville Maria
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Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
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Grotesque in the Lyric Poems by S. Esenin and V. Mayakovskiy of the 1920s
Филологический класс, 2020 The article investigates the semantics and functions of grotesque in the lyric poems of the 1920s. This was a transitional, critical period stirring the rise of grotesque aesthetics.
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Economie del grottesco nell’opera letteraria di Balzac: Le cousin Pons
Itinera, 2013 The essay focuses on relations between grotesque and melodrama in Balzac’s literary works. Unlike Victor Hugo, the grotesque takes up a specific function in the narrative and dramatic economy of Balzac’s novels.
Michele Bertolini
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Acromegaly, Mr Punch and caricature. [PDF]
, 1996 The origin of Mr Punch from the Italian Pulcinella of the Commedia dell'arte is well known but his feature, large hooked nose, protruding chin, kyphosis and sternal protrusion all in an exaggerated form also suggest the caricature of an acromegalic. This
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion.
Katrin Macha +4 more
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The Carnivalesque – Grotesque in Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies [PDF]
Estudios IrlandesesIn the absence of God and language as the ultimate authorities, what choices are left for human beings? This is probably the most profound question Samuel Beckett poses in his so-called Trilogy, the major non-dramatic work which is often considered as ...
Samaneh Pourmahdi +1 more
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