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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Black Comedy"”.
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A study of the struggle between the apollonian facade and the dionysian face in ten plays by Peter Shaffer
… facade on the Dionysian face in The White Liars, Black Comedy, The Private Ear, and The Public Eye. Chapter Three focuses on the destruction of the Dionysian face by the Apollonian facade in The Royal Hunt of the sun, Eguus, and Amadeus.
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Slapstick Carnage: The Absurd Universe of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
… thesis is to examine the function and effect of black comedy in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Several different explanations for the presence of comedy in such a relentlessly violent novel have been made: that this humor is simply a realistic depiction of the folksy, dry vernacular of the …
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Re-Imagining America: Twenty-First Century Disaster And Salvation In Contemporary Fiction
… the American imaginary. Finally, DBC Pierre's black comedy Vernon God Little traces the darkly humorous tale of a small Texas town's wildly inappropriate response to a school shooting to explore the factors that allow both violent crime and brutal punishment to continue their ravages on …
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Fantasy and politics in South African literature : a comparative study of the use of the fantastic in selected works of Christopher Hope, Ivan Vladislavic and Andre Brink
… we see how, through his use of satire and black comedy, Christopher Hope emphasises the warped absurdities of life under apartheid. Authority is subverted and controls are eluded, as Hope suggests the possibility of creative, liberated ways of apprehending reality through his use of the …
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Fowl feathered fox: Monsters, pipers, families and flocks
… it does from the traditions of revenge tragedy, comedy and horror, the style of Fowl Feathered Fox is both sensual and sensationalistic. Indeed, by virtue of overstepping traditional ideological, stage and venue boundaries to tap into an audience’s faculties of taste, physical sensation and …