Grotesque

Author : Natsuo Kirino
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267290

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Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino Pdf

Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Sato floats around among them, trying to fit in.Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead — both have become prostitutes and both have been brutally murdered. Natsuo Kirino, celebrated author of Out, seamlessly weaves together the stories of these women’s struggles within the conventions and restrictions of Japanese society. At once a psychological investigation of the pressures facing Japanese women and a classic work of noir fiction, Grotesque is a brilliantly twisted novel of ambition, desire, beauty, cruelty, and identity by one of our most electrifying writers.

Author : Justin Edwards,Rune Graulund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134105984

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Grotesque by Justin Edwards,Rune Graulund Pdf

Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book: presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present examines theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts introduce readers to key writers and artists of the grotesque, from Homer to Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers and David Cronenberg analyses key terms such as disharmony, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Grotesque presents readers with an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre and is an essential guide for students of literature, art history and film studies.

Author : Natsuo Kirino
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307269454

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Real World by Natsuo Kirino Pdf

In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate and astute, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.

Author : Daniel J. D. Stulac
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gift of the Grotesque by Daniel J. D. Stulac Pdf

“No other book of the Bible is quite so R-rated. No other book is quite so ugly or grotesque. Judges offers its reader not a roster of angelic saints, but an astonishing tempest of brutality, feces, slaughter, assassinations, conspiracy, genocide, child sacrifice, rage, betrayal, mass graves, gang-rape, corpse mutilation, kidnapping, and civil war.” Gift of the Grotesque offers readers a series of seven theological essays focused on one of the most confusing and challenging books in the biblical canon. Stulac’s captivating style combines sensitive exegesis with broadly accessible meditations on culture, art, music, literature, memoir, theology, and spirituality. Better understood as a companion rather than a biblical commentary, this unusual resource will kickstart the theological imagination of anyone who struggles to understand how the book of Judges points forward to the life and work of Jesus Christ. Dare to follow an experienced biblical scholar into the heart of Israel’s theological Dark Age, and you will encounter there the transformative Word of God in ways you do not expect. The prophetic book of Judges, writes Stulac, “wants to gut you like a fish, because on the far side of that unenviable prospect, it wants you alive like you’ve never lived before.”

Author : Patrick McGrath
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307822970

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The Grotesque by Patrick McGrath Pdf

This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell.

Author : Dieter Meindl
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826210791

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American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque by Dieter Meindl Pdf

By synthesizing Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and Heidegger's philosophy of Being, American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque seeks to demonstrate that American fiction from Poe to Pynchon has tried to convey the existential dimension: the pre-individual totality or flow of life, which defines itself against the mind and its linguistic capacity. Dieter Meindl shows how the grotesque, through its self-contradictory nature, has been instrumental in expressing this reality-conception, an antirationalist stance in basic agreement with existential thought. The historical validity of this new metaphysics, which grants precedence to Being--the context of cognition--over the cognizant subject, must be upheld in the face of deconstructive animadversions upon any metaphysics of presence. The notion of decentering the subject, Meindl argues, did not originate with deconstruction. The existential grotesque confirms the protomodernist character of classic American fiction. Meindl traces its course through a number of well-known texts by Melville, James, Gilman, Anderson, Faulkner, and O'Connor, among others. To convey life conceived as motion, these writers had to capture--that is, immobilize--it in their art: an essentially distortive and, therefore, grotesque device. Melville's "Bartleby," dealing with a mort vivant, is the seminal text in this mode of indirectness. As opposed to the existential grotesque, which grants access to a preverbal realm, the linguistic grotesque of postmodern fiction works on the assumption that all reality is referable to language in a textual universe. American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque will significantly alter our understanding of certain traditions in American literature.

Author : Philip John Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Grotesque in literature
ISBN : 0416081800

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The Grotesque by Philip John Thomson Pdf

Author : Philip Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315309439

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The Grotesque by Philip Thomson Pdf

First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful overview of the grotesque and its use in a number of literary genres including novels, drama and poetry. After providing a historical summary of the term, the book discusses the various defining aspects of the grotesque and its relationship to other terms and modes of literature, such as satire, the comic and parody. The final chapter presents the functions and purpose of the grotesque in literature. This book will be a useful resource for those studying literary theory and literary works which include an element of the grotesque.

Author : James Luther Adams,Wilson Yates
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0802842674

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The Grotesque in Art and Literature by James Luther Adams,Wilson Yates Pdf

The authors focus on the religious and theological significance of grotesque imagery in art and literature, exploring the religious meaning of the grotesque and its importance as a subject for theological inquiry.

Author : Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Grotesque in literature
ISBN : 9780791098028

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The Grotesque by Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby Pdf

Contains twenty critical essays that explore themes of the grotesque in various works, such as Voltaire's "Candide," Shelley's "Frankenstein," "Gogol's "The Overcoat," and Kafka's "The Metamorphosis."

Author : Mary J. Russo
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Body, Human, in literature
ISBN : 0415901642

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The Female Grotesque by Mary J. Russo Pdf

Examines the grotesque in the light of gender, locating the role of the woman's body in its discourse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968191

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The Grotesque and the Unnatural by Anonim Pdf

Author : Justin Edwards,Rune Graulund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134106059

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Grotesque by Justin Edwards,Rune Graulund Pdf

Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book: presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present examines theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts introduce readers to key writers and artists of the grotesque, from Homer to Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers and David Cronenberg analyses key terms such as disharmony, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Grotesque presents readers with an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre and is an essential guide for students of literature, art history and film studies.

Author : Virginia E. Swain
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421429236

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Grotesque Figures by Virginia E. Swain Pdf

Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque Figures, Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter of the eighteenth century made itself felt in Baudelaire's modern poetry in the pervasive textual and figural presence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Not only do Rousseau's ideas inform Baudelaire's theory of the grotesque, but Rousseau makes numerous appearances in Baudelaire's poetry as a caricature or type representing the hold of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution over Baudelaire and his contemporaries. As a character in "Le Poème du hashisch" and the Petits Poèmes en prose, "Rousseau" gives the grotesque a human form. Swain's literary, cultural, and historical analysis deepens our understanding of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century aesthetics by relating Baudelaire's poetic theory and practice to Enlightenment debates about allegory and the grotesque in the arts. Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo, and the presence of the grotesque in the modern.

Author : Julie Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351574570

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Bartók and the Grotesque by Julie Brown Pdf

The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bartngaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title. In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bart concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While Barteveloped each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bartas composing.