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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Dark Humor"”.
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Jokes from the Gallows
… explore this theme through comedy, specifically dark humor, as a way of talking about some of the darkest times a person can experience and how compassion from others can help in those moments. The main character of the story works as a “chauffer,” a grim reaper-type, escorting the recently …
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Drinking Water Out of Streams
… poems with a subject: both poetic forms weave dark humor, a sense of survival, and joyful social observation through themes of gender, the body, self-destruction, family, and obligation.
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Auto Biography: A Daughter's Story Told in Cars
… stress, its pain, its sacrifice, and its dark humor; 2) memory––the "peeling back" narrative style working in the same layer upon layer way of memory, its non-linearity creating not so much a one-piece narrative but essay snapshots forming a family photo album view of this thing we call …
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Defending Defense: Circular Arguments About Artmaking
… relation to over arching themes of game theory, dark humor, and fascination with media. An in depth look at the process of the thesis show, "Defense is the Best Defense." Multiple takes on the thesis exhibit counterbalance the need for contemporary art to include description. This paper is a …
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Thin Bodies
… years. The novel has a gothic tone mixed with dark humor in order to occupy a dual space of entertainment and literary value.
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Play Girl
… deploying persona, apostrophe, and dark humor to resist legibility and containment. Poems shift registers rapidly—from sacred to grotesque, confessional to clinical—mirroring the porousness of trans embodiment and perception. Throughout Play Girl, form functions as both costume and …
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DISASTER SALSA
… disorder, their resilience, and the occasional dark humor of those who, through love, are forced to witness.</p>
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The Therapeutic Benefits of Children’s Literature: Responding Through Making Art and Writing Stories
… Self-Image, and Scale for Assessing Use of Humor. Results were categorized as expressing more positively themed, neutral themed or negatively themed content in the artwork and description of the story. Themes were compared to the themes presented in the children's book to assess for …