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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 +1 more
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The hunger artist and academic migration: On political depression and relational poverty
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This autoethnography presents fragments of an invisible life, an ordinary body navigating the terrain of ‘academic migration’ (2009–2025), from rejection as a PhD applicant to recognition as a high‐achieving graduate. Provoked by my recent pursuit of Fulbright Postdoctoral Award in the United States, I draw on Kafka's figure of the hunger ...
Dave Yan
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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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German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 419-436, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article considers how trans lives are mediated across literary, painterly and filmic registers in Paul B. Preciado's Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). My analysis draws on Andrew Webber's development of reading practices applied to intertextual works that also exhibit interpictorial and interfilmic dynamics in his reading of a scene
Lawrence Alexander
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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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Artificial Creativity and Human Fragility
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 543-558, July 2026.Abstract This article critiques the widespread assumption that generative AI systems exhibit genuine artistic creativity. While such systems can produce novel and aesthetically appealing outputs, assessments based solely on results obscure fundamental differences between human and artificial agents.
Johanna Merz
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Sustainable Business and Society in Emerging EconomiesPurpose: This study examines Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead as a dramatic work that reinterprets Shakespeare’s Hamlet by shifting attention from the protagonist to a couple of minor characters.
Mirza Khurram Naseem Baig +1 more
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The Role of Theory in Biology: How You Can Be, and Likely Already Are, a Theoretician
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.Theory is an inextricable component of the scientific process. Nonetheless, many researchers have an uneasy relationship with theory. This paper provides tools to empower researchers to place their work within a theoretical framework, and to aid them in building and using theories. ABSTRACT Theory is an inextricable component of the scientific process.
Samuel M. Scheiner
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The semantics of language in Eugène Ionesco’s plays
Swedish Journal of Romanian StudiesThe goal of this paper is to present the characteristics of Eugène Ionesco’s dramatic texts, a reason why the genre of avant-garde and theatre of the absurd are also considered, with a view to revealing their major ways of functioning.
Cristina Nicolaescu
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