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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Absurd"”.
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Ionesco's Absurd Anthropology
… Ionesco's plays are often thought of only as absurd. This thesis explores another possible interpretation of his plays, including <em>Rhinocèros</em>, <em>Le Roi se meurt</em>, <em>Jeux de massacre</em>, <em>Les Chaises</em>, <em>Victimes du devoir</em>, <em>La Jeune fille à marier</em>, and …
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Camus and the absurd
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department. of Humanities, 1981
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Absurd machine : project on the National Mall
America's symbols of governance, such as the ubiquitous state capitols and state capitol malls, are classically inspired European architecture and planning of reason and nature, adopted in America by Jefferson in 18th century as symbols of democratic institutions. These symbols are in contradiction …
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Slapstick Carnage: The Absurd Universe of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
… gallows humor in the novel helps to establish an absurd universe (as delineated by Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus), and as this existential void is circumscribed, anything and everything in the novel becomes potentially farcical.
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Meeting the Absurd: Camus and the Communication Ethics of the Everyday
The metaphor of the absurd, as well as the work and thought of Albert Camus, has primarily served as a secondary resource within the communication discipline. This project contributes to the conversation about the absurd in an effort to further the study of communication ethics by placing Camus in …
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The Absurd and Film: From the Existential Moment to Metaphysical Revolt
… I question what kinds of political qualms absurdity might render, using film experience as a venue to understand and evaluate these questions.
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Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation in the Battle for Existentialism
Abstract Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation of the Battle for Existentialism – By Jason Blacklock This dissertation offers an Existentialist interpretation of the life and work of Philip Guston. Discourse regarding avant-garde New York School artists and their knowledge and …
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Text world theory : A critical exposition and development in relation to absurd prose fiction.
… and inter-related analyses. These centre around Absurd prose fiction, selected in order to highlight the adaptability of the new Text World Theory especially in the context of literary environments that are often judged to be challenging on a cognitive dimension. Extensive analyses of Paul …
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The Impact of The Absurd on Modern Arabic Literature: A Study of the Influence of Camus, Ionesco and Beckett (Theater, Ikhlasi, Hakim, Idris, Mahfuz)
One of the most problematic issues in Arabic literature has been the opposition between tajd(')id or innovation, and the two principles which have traditionally governed Arabic literature: turath, or heritage, and asala, roots. Tajd(')id has gradually asserted its own as Arabic literature has …
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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
… those produced by the dramatists of the Absurd. The theater of the Absurd is not concerned with presenting the destinies of characters or showing the clash of opposite temperaments and human passions locked in conflict. The dramatists of the Absurd--more specifically Samuel Beckett in …
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Albert Camus en la obra Carlos Martinez Rivas y Charles Bukowski
… is intrinsically related to his theory of the absurd: an existential crisis derived from the absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. His critique of modernity depicts the anguish that rested in humanity's collective conscious …
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La condición posmoderna y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
… el enlace de la condición posmoderna y el absurdo en los cuentos "Chac Mool" (1954) del mexicano Carlos Fuentes (1928), "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes" (1972) del colombiano Gabriel García Márquez (1928) y "El ángel caído" (1986) de la uruguaya Cristina Peri Rossi (1941). Se …
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Elsewhere: In Defense of Daydreaming
<p>Much like music, organic life is an absurd, improbable, and serendipitous instance. I set circular, electric, acoustic, and magnetic forces in motion and allow them to coalesce freely in the hopes of synthesizing unexpected moments of beauty, connection, and harmony.</p>
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Juozo Glinskio drama: tarp realizmo ir modernizmo /
… aesthetic of the game, relating it with an absurd, the social and psychological realism, invoking the most important supports of the depersonalization and the carnivalism of players, seeking to reveal the farcicality, which is dictated by the totalitarian system of that period. There is …
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These are the people I've been telling you about
… attempt to build meaning out of lives at once absurd and banal. Toward this end, this collection plays with the problem of communication and meaning both in content and in form.
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Salvaging meaning : exploring the language of inflatable kinetic sculptures and the materiality of plastic
Inflatable sculpture is often seen as absurd, comic or light-hearted, but it can also convey a darker, more serious tone. The inflatable sculptures created in part fulfillment for this degree explore refabrication through the use of discarded plastic. This body of work highlights the relationship …
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The Death of God: An Analysis of the Existential Solutions to the Problem of Nihilism
… similar themes to Sartre. Camus focuses on the absurdity of life and stresses the importance of living in the physical world. In his famous works, 'The Myth of Sisyphus' and 'The Stranger' Camus presents his characters as Absurd heroes. Unlike Sartre, Camus focuses on one's absurd existence and …
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Albert Camus on political murder: a sign of the times in which we live
… the following: 1) Is suicide the answer to the absurd?; 2) In the context of the absurd is murder permitted?; and 3) Upon what principle can we build a code of conduct to which man ought to adhere in the arena of politics? To answer these questions this essay concentrated on two of Camus' major …
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Confrontation: Endeavors in Futility
… performance based video works pertaining to the absurd as described by Camus, and later expressed by Samuel Beckett, also the role of the masculine body's physicality within ritualized actions.
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The Real Thing
… through the lens of the strange and at times the absurd. It invites its readers to cast away expectation, sit back, and watch the show.</p>
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