The Theatre of the Absurd icon: Edward Albee’s Juxtaposition of Abstract Symbolism to Existential realism in Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf? [PDF]
Akofena: Among the diverse literary dramatic forms, the theatre of the absurd inhabits and characterizes the intellectual European literature since the fifteenth century, starting from Erasmus of Rotterdam’s Praise of Madness (1511).
Hassiba BOUKHATEM
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 1
Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 240-265, June 2026.Abstract The Royal Titles Bill (1876) proved to be contentious because it raised fraught issues of royal prerogative, constitutional legality, political perspective, parliamentary strategy, journalistic practice, and public opinion. Disraeli insisted that Queen Victoria could choose the supplementary title, empress of India, while Gladstone and his ...
Robert O'Kell
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Critical Management Studies: From One‐Dimensional Critique to Three‐Dimensional Scepticism
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 1637-1660, May 2026.Abstract Critical Management Studies (CMS) has largely relied on one‐dimensional critique which focus on the negation of a dominant social order. This strong focus has made the field increasingly stale and preoccupied with standard objects for critique.
Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
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Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage
, 2015 Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment.
Finburgh, Clare
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Overcoming the non-performability/nonacceptability of some absurd elements: The feasibility of committing ST shifts in a French-Arabic and an English-Arabic translation of Samuel Barclay Beckett’s self-translated play “Waiting for Godot” (1952)/ “En Attendant Godot” (1948) [PDF]
Studia TranslatoricaThe initial norm of performability/acceptability is usually at the back of the minds of play translators. This study is specifically conducted on Samuel Barclay Beckett’s self-translated play, “Waiting for Godot”.
Hagar Soliman
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British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Populist leaders are known for engaging supporters through compelling rhetoric, sparking debate about what persuasive strategies they use to mobilize voters. While research shows that leaders creatively frame their communication, the role of social media–especially its multimodal affordances–remains poorly understood.
Jenni Jaakkola +3 more
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, 2011 Harold Pinter is the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 2004 for his contribution in the field of DRAMA. The type of drama to which he contributed his lot is known as THEATRE OF THE ABSURD.
Chandra, Padhy Bijoya
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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 461-472, April 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
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Modern Drama: The Theatre of the Absurd
, 1969 Theatre of the Absurd is a post-war phenomenon in which the dramatists, in anxiety and despair, show their sense of the senselessness of the human condition in a world in which man is deprived of certainties.
Ratcliff, LeElla Theresa
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