The Grotesque
The Grotesque and/in/through Film
... the grotesque and realism, and the ways in which they are situated amongst other artists using a variety of mediums who embrace the grotesque and ...the grotesque and realism, such as trends in the ...
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The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry
... Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was a Pulitzer-prize winning American poet who did not produce much published work in her career. This was partly due to her low confidence, depression, alcoholism, and difficult personal ...
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From Dispossession to the Grotesque: Deterritorializing Human Identity in Cobra, El obsceno pájaro de la noche and The Unnamable
... the grotesque is presentation, then it cannot be a distortion, given that a distortion derives from another that is not ...the grotesque is not a distortion, could it rather be rather the presence of the ...
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Facilitating the Grotesque Reception and Human-Nature Interrelationship in Tunku Halim’s Dark Demon Rising
... In the fierce stillness of one particular night, Shazral loses the sense of time and place due to the ultimate pressure of accomplishing a task at hand (to accept a family inheritance that was bequeathed by his father). ...
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The classical and the grotesque in the work of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift
... Introduction The classical body and aesthetics Classical structures: time and space Toward the modern classical The Grotesque Classical Reception The carnivalesque The World Turned Upsid[r] ...
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Idealized bodies, the grotesque and homosocial communities: masculinities and men's magazines
... While magazinessuch as Esquirc and Playboy were at the forefront of targeting heterosexual men through the promotion of women's bodies and a bachelor lifestyle, 1980s Mush magazMes such [r] ...
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The Grotesque in Melville's The Confidence-Man
... image functions as a metaphor for the human condition: there may very well be meanings, possibly sinister ones, behind the world's shifting appearances, but even if there are, our eyes a[r] ...
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... Montaigne’s essay on “Of a Monstrous Child,” which I discussed in Chapter two in relation to the grotesque, and which introduces the sentiment of the esperpento. Divinas palabras is a story about country folk ...
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Contextualizing Bluebeard Patriarchy through Grotesque- Feminism and Sexuality in Angela Carter’s Shadow Dance and Heroes and Villains
... Bakhtin believes that the grotesque is positive and may be used as a source of empowerment. Carter employed the Bakhtinian theory of the “carnivalesque” in her novels. Fellini used the images of carnival in his ...
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Postcolonial Trauma Narratives: Traumatic Historiography and Identity in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome
... the grotesque, his creation of the Boneshaker drill directly created the rift in the ground that leaked blight gas and caused the zombification of much of the population of ...
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Who's the Fairest of Them All? Defining and Subverting the Female Beauty Ideal in Fairy Tale Narratives and Films through Grotesque Aesthetics
... underneath him, lived the quintessence of gentleness, the prime cut of fine meats, and the cream of tenderness”; 99). Already a two-bodied image has come into effect, as the king imagines the most delicate beauty ...
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The Carnivalesque Laughter of Flannery O'Connor
... Flannery O’Connor uses the extreme incongruity between her characters’ beliefs and the concrete world to create humor that reveals truths about the nature of the world. As Steed has shown, O’Connor skillfully uses humor ...
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RACISM AND QUEST FOR AN IDENTITY AS DEPICTED IN TONI MORRISON’S SONG OF SOLOMON
... Since the days of the Civil War (1861-1865) Afro-Americans came on the forefront of American literary scene. Many Northern American writers had tried to present the suppressed and meaningless life of Afro-Americans in ...
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Geochemical Signatures of Stream Capture in the Retreating Blue Ridge Escarpment, Southern Appalachian Mountains
... Before encountering and drawing inspiration from Bakhtin’s formulation of the grotesque, I felt the profound influence of sixteenth century Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel. His paintings encompass an enormous ...
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Satire bust: the wagers of money
... Exaggeration, excess, the grotesque, are constants of the novel, as it trawls what Eric Korn, boarding Amis’s rhythmic locomotive, called “midtown, fastfood, fastbuck, fastfuck Manhattan[r] ...
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Members only? The non aggression of Phalluses in Lucilian satire
... This theoretical elucidation has been used to read the grotesque body as a symbol of the punishing sterility of Roman satire.67 Such a reading might be prompted by the Saturnalian aspect[r] ...
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Warhover_unc_0153M_16904.pdf
... is grotesque in that it combines all parts of the body into one (Bakhtin 316-17), though in this case the ring does not distort the body so much as replace ...Bakhtin’s grotesque, and putting them together ...
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Influence of N. Gogol’s and M. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s Satire on Michail Bulgakov’s Prose
... the grotesque description of the drunkard medical attendant whose eyes ‘looked like two sealing wax corks from Russian vodka ...The grotesque motive of enlivening of the portrait refers us to Gogol’s story ...
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Full Article
... Doré challenged the Ruskinian principle of “fidelity to nature” that Victorians were accustomed to identify in the works of Rossetti, Hunt, and Millais. For Doré, “fidelity to nature” had a different meaning: it did not ...
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Narrating the (post)nation? : Aspects of the local and the global in Francophone Congolese writing
... the grotesque, it explores the different approaches used to construct localities and globalities through their depictions of the dead and the dying body in these two ...
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