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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"theater of the absurd"”.
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Reading <i>Waiting for Godot</i> through the lens of Christian existentialism
… for Godot</em> is commonly interpreted within the context of the Theater of the Absurd, existentialist literature, or Christian allegory. This thesis recognizes the validity of all such readings while attempting to merge these seemingly contradictory perspectives. By reading the play within the …
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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
… and nonsense poetry have provided release from the shackles of logic for centuries. But the greatest masters of English nonsense are Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. Carroll gives, in <em>Alice in Wonderland</em> and <em>Through the Looking-glass,</em> the principles underlying a carefully-built …
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The dramaturgy of Sławomir Mrożek
<p>The focus of this dissertation is the dramaturgy of Sławomir Mrożek. The study was triggered by a striking disproportion in Mrożekian criticism. There is a multitude of minor articles and reviews, but not a single monographic study devoted to the dramatist and his work. Such a state of affairs …
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Cultural Stereotypes: From Dracula's Myth to Contemporary Diasporic Productions
This study is focused on a highly topical theme, which belongs to the pluralist practice of cultural studies, and aims at investigating a remarkable phenomenon of identity-shaping and cross-cultural exchange. Starting from an analysis of Dracula as the epitomized image of the Balkans (and of …