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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"grotesque"”.
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Grotesque Evolutions
This original collection of poems explores personal transformation, specifically through three overarching themes: the dream and its significance to waking life and the psyche, the hybridization of the human body with animals or the dismemberment of the body, and the discovery of self through human …
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Jose Donoso and the Grotesque
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H.P. Lovecraft and the Modernist Grotesque
… the relationships between modernist and grotesque literature. Various authors are mentioned with reference to both modernist and grotesque literary tendencies, and Lovecraft's "modernist grotesque" characteristics are analyzed in their connection to the three concepts that are prominent …
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The grotesque in Gogol and Poe
… study focuses on the positive aspects of the grotesque and their realization through Romantic Irony and humor in selected works by N. V. Gogol and Edgar Allan Poe. Starting with a reassessment of Wolfgang Kayser’s characterizations of the grotesque in <em>The Grotesque in Art and …
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Charles Dickens: artist of the grotesque
<p>The grotesque in Dickens’ works should be studied as a means of understanding his artistry and imagination. Biographical and psychoanalytical approaches to his fascination with the grotesque provide only partial explanations for Dickens’ use of hyperbole, caricature, melodrama and the macabre. …
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A fabulist’s alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
… analysing Lovecraft’s use of the sublime and the grotesque. This analysis employs the sublime as explained by Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of The Sublime and the Beautiful (1757) and the technological sublime; and the grotesque as presented by …
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The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry
… characteristics of the carnivalesque and the grotesque, her poetry explores these concepts and the need to cover them. This study's close analysis of four works ("From the Country to the City, " "Cirque d'Hiver, " "Pink Dog, " and "The Man-Moth") reveals characteristics of the carnivalesque …
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Charles Brockden Brown and the Ethics of the Grotesque
… that which I suggest is best understood as their grotesqueness; that which commands attention and resists assimilation—serves an ethical end.
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Chicago grotesque: literary and artistic perceptions of Chicago, 1880-1910
… identity of societies, by their creation of grotesque images of their culture. it is through the dynamic relationship with the reader and their response to these grotesque identities that the future identities of Chicago and its people are either accepted or rejected.
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The Early Thirties Novels of Erskine Caldwell (Depression, Southern, Grotesque)
… Tobacco Road, and Journeyman described Georgia grotesques whose primitivism and overt sexuality drew the attention of millions of readers. A fourth novel of the period, "Autumn Hill," was less successful. About Maine rather than Georgia and unpublished until the early 1950s, it reveals some of …
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The Grotesque Element in Post-Romantic German Prose: 1832-1882
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Scream Queen: Drag, Dance, and the Grotesque Beauty of Queer Imagination
… queer people gravitate towards that which is grotesque, horrific, and villainous because it allows them to feel a sense of power within their otherness, actively witnessing aspects of their identity within figureheads that oppose the world which has demonized their existence.
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The dynamics of terror : or, The grotesque character of Gothic fiction
This essay examines the use of the grotesque to create terror in Gothic fiction in the late l8th century and throughout the 19th century. After using Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast to establish the central role of the grotesque in fully successful Gothic texts, the focus then shifts to …
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The grotesque in the works of Federico Fellini and Angela Carter
… controversy that has historically surrounded the grotesque. Contention over the grotesque has existed since the earliest known discourses on the subject by Horace and Vitruvius. The indeterminacy and paradoxical nature of the grotesque, which disturbed these men of antiquity, has continued to …
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The only light shot out as usual: Defining an Appalachian Grotesque
… as a tangible production of an Appalachian grotesque, a grotesque constructed through the subversion of the modern American gothic as a critical model for exploring Appalachian identity, particularly nationally othered and queered identities. The scope of this project ranges from …
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Sublime dissension: A working-class Anti-Pygmalion aesthetics of the female grotesque
… under-theorised dimension of the “female grotesque”: its formation under a process of classed construction. Contesting the disavowal of class identity in much art writing, I explore how it shapes art reception, showing how images of the Anti-Pygmalion female grotesque can provoke sublime …
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