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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
wiley   +1 more source

Theatraverse, Lecoq and a Post-modern Bilingual Theatre Aesthetic

Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2018
Interview with Joanne Allan, artistic director of Theatraverse, a bilingual French/English company based in Paris. The interview was conducted by emails and one face to face meeting in September and October 2017.
Michael Richardson
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Il re si diverte e muore: un itinerario dal grottesco all’assurdo

Itinera, 2013
This essay first discusses Victor Hugo’s defence of grotesque, his defence of Shakespeare, his achievements in Le roi s’amuse, and also the limitations due to his prophetic style.
Paulo Filipe Monteiro
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The political carnival and the culture of political elites – review of the book by P.L. Karabushchenko "Carnival Political Culture" (2022)

Современная наука и инновации, 2023
The recently observed increase in the carnival political culture primarily affects the behaviour of ruling political elites of the so-called "Collective West".
L. Ya. Podvoisky
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Reclaiming a Basque youth voice in Navarre: The Iruinkokoa carnival as an agentive chronotope

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article analyzes Iruinkokoa, a contemporary Basque carnival in Pamplona‐Iruñea, as an example of emerging forms of minority‐language activism grounded in carnivalesque critique and performative intervention. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, the study examines how parody, satire, and collective performance ...
Agurtzane Elordui, Iñaki Sagardoi‐Leuza, Samara Velte   +2 more
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The Experiment of Rebelling in Beckett: The Impact of Camus and Havel [PDF]

Polish Journal of English Studies, 2018
The infinite and useless struggles of Camus’s Sisyphus have long informed discussions of the philosophy and theatre of the absurd. In the Greek myth, which Camus reductively appropriates, Sisyphus relentlessly repeats his efforts to roll the rock up the ...
Ivan Nyusztay
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 752-764, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Procedimientos de humor en Théâtre sans animaux de Jean-Michel Ribes [PDF]

Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2015
The aim of this paper is to examine the role of humour in Théâtre sans animaux. Our approach is to define two forms of humour which play on the effects of incoherence: the unusual and the absurd.
Montserrat Cots Vicente, María Dolores Vivero García   +1 more
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 907-920, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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"Inspector" by N.V. Gogol - paradoxes of the experimental poetics

Opera slavica, 2013
N. V. Gogol's comedy "Inspector" anticipated experiments of the 20th century theatre: N. Evreinov's "Theatre of the Paradox", V. Mejerkhold-director's innovations in Soviet Russia, and later the Theatre of the absurd and L. Pirandello's Metatheatre.
Alla Vladimirovna Zločevskaja
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