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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"grotesque realism"”.
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Comedy in British and Italian film from 1949 to 1975
… the ways in which different comic modes (parody, grotesque, satire) are interplayed with the use of national stereotypes in order to address issues of social criticism. The first chapter analyses comparatively The Ladykillers (A. Mackendrick, 1955) and I soliti ignoti (M. Monicelli, 1958) in terms …
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The Rhetorical Strategies of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
… those around him, transcending lofty ideas into grotesque realism. He is the perfect sidekick: loyal, compassionate, critical, and funny. Both Don Quixote’s and Sancho’s rhetorical strategies act as resources for approaching changes in society. Coupled together, the persuasive skills of Don …
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Metaphysical balm and the poet as legislator
… Bakhtin and his concepts of folk humour and grotesque realism in a text. Carolyn Forché's idea of poetry as a witness of a lived experience, as enunciated in her text Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, will be discussed. Thereafter, the essay will consider Viljoen and …
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"X-rays" of self and society : Dambudzo Marechera's avant-gardism and its implications for debates concerning Zimbabwean literature and culture
… I challenge the privileged status of traditional realism, question the prescriptions of nationalist/realist critics, and attempt to demonstrate the value of Marechera's non-realist writing. While many nationalist critics allege that Marechera's writing is 'unAfrican', I argue that it is a fallacy …
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A Carnivalesque Perspective of Graham Swift's Last Orders
… by the characters in the narrative, of the grotesque incidents that occur in these locations, and of the narrative style and structure of the novel itself.