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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Absurdist"”.
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Absurdist Features in Russian Drama: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Some aspects of Biblical influence upon the Absurdist Theater of Beckett, Ghelderode, and Arrabal
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Social paranoia and absurdist fiction in Cold War America and Soviet Russia: a comparative study
… the theme of social paranoia as depicted in the Absurdist fiction of Cold War America and Soviet Russia. The central hypothesis informing this research maintains that, despite the ideology of moral and cultural “Otherness” constructed and reinforced by both nations throughout much of twentieth …
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Liars Like Him
… which fall somewhere between the realist and absurdist genres of fiction. Most of them take place in or around Ohio. Birds and humans often appear side by side.
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Liars Like Him
… which fall somewhere between the realist and absurdist genres of fiction. Most of them take place in or around Ohio. Birds and humans often appear side by side.
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Something that Hasn't Happened Yet
… the world of family and relationships in an absurdist/meta-modern narrative. The collection also explores the form of poetry itself as well as creative nonfiction, recipes, and flash fiction as well. It is an attempt to assemble meaning through humor and the process of writing itself.
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Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation in the Battle for Existentialism
… fully with Existentialist and particularly Absurdist values. I propose that Absurdism can be linked to Guston’s work in three ways. First, by reviewing his biography I suggests that he was exposed to fundamental traumas early on. Second, close visual analysis of his paintings will be used …
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Because a Fire, A Lover's Quarrel: Poems
… three general categories: autobiographical, absurdist, or formal. </p>
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Big Baby Hot, Big Baby Cold
… the present moment. These stories often employ absurdist elements. Because of the personal history that informs my work, realism does not seem an appropriate form for me. My oldest son, in whom my emotional well-being is heavily invested, is autistic. He is not “normal"? in a way that others …
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CONK
CONK is a collection that explores the absurdist irony located at the intersection between horror and humor. The events are predicated upon the characters' fundamental misunderstandings of the world around them, their doom arising from their inability to differentiate between the indecipherable and …
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A study of the life and work of Christopher Durang: laughing wild amidst severest woe
… the work of one of America's premier authors of absurdist comedy. It explores the work of Durang as it relates to his own grief and grieving process and chronologically places his work into the standard matrix of grief defined by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, which is now commonly accepted by …
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Proof: A Collection
… it is slightly more influenced by the absurdist writers of the mid-twentieth century in that it carries an overall air of futility, and thus, it, in its own way, also questions reason. Finally, "Persephone," examines the ways in which addiction, emotional or substance based, erode …
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Jiggs and Other Stories
… of genres that include magical realism, tragedy, absurdist fiction, and fantasy and adventure. Beyond those significant categories, however, these stories are the product of my imagination. The power of fiction itself—Id like to believe—depends upon the capacities of the mind. When knowledge, …
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Reflections on War, Guilt, and Responsibility: Aspects of Post-War German and Japanese Drama (1945-1970)
… these plays range from expressionistic to absurdist, from realistic-documentary to grotesque, from satiric-demonstrative to loosely suggestive techniques. There seems to be a stronger didactic/moralizing element in the German examples than in their less direct, more ambiguous Japanese …
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'The English Ionesco' : eine komparatistische Untersuchung des absurden Theaters N. F. Simpsons und Ionescos
… Simpson ist, ganz im Gegensatz zu Ionesco, kaum Absurdist im weltanschaulichen Sinn. Daraus ergibt sich die Frage, ob in diesem Fall überhaupt von einem 'English Ionesco' die Rede sein kann, weil ein 'Ionesco ohne Absurdität' nicht vorstellbar ist. <br>Die Antwort, dass es dennoch möglich ist, …
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Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect
… of provisional ethnographic installations: absurdist and poetic visual frameworks that purposefully conflate cultural phenomena to reveal their hidden interdependencies. Through this hybrid artistic method, my thesis explores how power operates through concealment—and how art can function as …
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Ethics, politics, and alterity in selected plays and other works by Harold Pinter
… the earlier tendency that takes Pinter as an Absurdist and the late one that regards him as purely political. I shall then seek to explore the nexus between politics and ethics in various Pinter texts that deal explicitly or suggestively with the political. In order to so, I shall look at the …
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Into the Rhino-verse
… architect. This thesis examines and embraces the absurdist digital landscape to make sense of the relationship between architects and parametric design tools, while also introducing newly imagined animals to control even more aspects of the architectural process. The project envisions a …
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The Six Piano Sonatas of James Sellars: Aspects of Form, Rhythm, Texture, and Style
… period; Sonata V reveals the influence of the absurdist Dada movement; and the last sonata Patterns on a Field, blends minimalism with elements of rock music. These sonatas represent Sellars' significant contribution to the genre of the piano sonata and deserve a position among other important …
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It's All Been Done
… from avant-garde composer John Zorn and the absurdist comedy troop Monty Python’s Flying Circus, using jump cuts to quickly transport us to entirely different musical scenes that seemingly have nothing to do with the previous movement. While the movements are completely original, they are …
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