Grotesque Revisited

Author : Laurynas Katkus
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443850940

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Grotesque Revisited by Laurynas Katkus Pdf

This collection of essays aims to recapitulate the state of grotesque poetics in modern and post-modern writing. It concentrates on Central and Eastern Europe, introducing the Western reader to the variety and ingenuity of this region’s literary traditions, ranging from German and Russian to Lithuanian and Romanian literatures. At the same time, it seeks to highlight the importance of the grotesque mode of writing in the region. It includes new insights and interpretations of theories on grotesque and Menippean satire including (but not limited to) the works of Mikhail Bakhtin. The historic scope of the volume ranges from the legacies of Nazi dictatorship and exile to the post-communist times, but it is especially focused on the Soviet era. Scholars, not only from Central and Eastern Europe, but also from Great Britain, Ireland, and Turkey, analyze the literary devices of the grotesque, examining the relationship between the socio-political background and subversive representations of the grotesque. Many studies take on a comparative and transnational approach. Alternatively, some studies aim to present important and innovative creators of grotesque texts in greater detail. This book, which features, among others, contributions by Professor Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Chair of Queen Mary College at the University of London; Professor Alexander Ivanitsky of the Russian State University of Humanities; Professor Algis Kalėda of the Lithuanian Institute of Literature and Folklore; Professor Peter Arnds of Trinity College, Dublin; and Dr Carmen Popescu of the University of Craiova, Romania, will appeal to a broad academic readership, including both students and professors wanting to discover more about the literary grotesque and modern Central and Eastern European literature and culture.

Author : David Cruickshank
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031543463

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The Grotesque Modernist Body by David Cruickshank Pdf

Author : Thomas Pratt Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89010831501

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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Grotesque by Thomas Pratt Baldwin Pdf

Author : Lucia Tantardini,Rebecca Norris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004679757

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Grotesque and Caricature by Lucia Tantardini,Rebecca Norris Pdf

Grotesque and Caricature: Leonardo to Bernini examines these two genres across Renaissance and Early Modern Italy. Although their origins stem from Antiquity, it were Leonardo da Vinci’s early teste caricate that injected fresh life into the tradition, greatly inspiring generations of artists. Critical among them were his Milanese followers, such as Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, and also Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo as well as, notably, Annibale Carracci, Guercino, and Bernini among others. Their artistic production—drawings, prints, paintings, and sculpture—reveals deep interest in physical, physiognomic, and psychological observations with a penchant for humour and wit. Written by an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume explores new insights to these complementary artistic genres. Contributors include: Carlo Avilio, Ilaria Bernocchi, Christophe Brouard, Sandra Cheng, Susan Klaiber, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Tod A. Marder, Rebecca Norris, Lucia Tantardini, Nicholas J. L. Turner, Mary Vaccaro, and Matthias Wivel.

Author : Elio Attilio Baldi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683931928

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The Author in Criticism by Elio Attilio Baldi Pdf

The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (such as gender and background), and translation and the language in which the author speaks (or fails to speak) to us. It traces the influence of these aspects in the academic discourse on Calvino. The Author in Criticism also analyzes Calvino’s various professional roles as writer, editor, essayist, journalist, private correspondent, and public, cosmopolitan intellectual, reappraising their often little acknowledged importance for academic criticism. An important underlying idea is that the preconceived image that every critic has of Calvino before even opening one of his books is often solidified and repeated even in the most refined and complex critical analyses. This volume purposefully foregrounds the textual and non-textual parts that are usually considered peripheral to the works of an author, such as book covers, blurbs, reviews, talks, interviews, etc. In this way, this book provides insight into the reception of Calvino’s works in different countries. Moreover, it forms a broader reflection of and on important constants in the workings of literary criticism, and on the way academic discourses have developed in various cultural contexts over the last decades.

Author : Gavin Baddeley
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780859658768

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Dissecting Marilyn Manson by Gavin Baddeley Pdf

In Dissecting Marilyn Manson, author Gavin Baddeley performs a cultural autopsy upon Manson, examining the seminal influences and psychotic sources that have gone into making him the Frankenstein monster that he is today. With its heavily visual approach, the text and pictures create the impression of a pathological scrapbook, emphasising the idea of the performer being put under the knife, exploring the Manson mythos in an irreverent but authoritative manner. Each chapter exposes one gruesome angle after another, gradually revealing just what makes Marilyn Manson tick and why so many find him so compelling. Dissecting Marilyn Manson offers the legion of dedicated Manson fans an alternative look into his macabre and twisted world. This revised and updated edition continues dissecting up to the present day, analysing recent developments in Manson's professional and private life, including his recent high-profile court case, marriage to fetish model Dita Von Teese, and creative forays into the worlds of art and film.

Author : Natasha Perova,Arch Tait
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566631823

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Beyond the Looking Glass by Natasha Perova,Arch Tait Pdf

As Russian society passes through a stage of wrenching transformation, the vision of its writers has veered toward the absurd. This unique collection of amusing and unique stories presents the latest work of some of the modern absurdist writers.

Author : Aušra Jurgutienė,Dalia Satkauskytė
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644690871

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The Literary Field under Communist Rule by Aušra Jurgutienė,Dalia Satkauskytė Pdf

This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space. The book proposes a reconsideration of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of literary field and analyzes the interactions of literature, power, and economics under the communist rule. The articles selected include theoretical discussions and case studies from different national literatures presenting different structural elements of the Soviet literary field, as well as phenomena created by the complexity of the field itself, such as the Aesopian language, state of emergency literature, or compromise as the essential element of the writers’ identity.

Author : Nikol Dziub,Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527524095

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Comparative Literature in Europe by Nikol Dziub,Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre Pdf

Thanks to its historical, theoretical, and methodological dimensions, this book is unique, both in Europe and in the USA. It brings together researchers from across Europe to explain how comparative literature works, both on an institutional and a technical level, in the country in which they teach. The contributions also define the characteristics of European comparative literature on a continental level. From Austria to Ukraine, by way of Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland, this book offers an expansive panorama, placing great emphasis on usually “invisible” countries. Moreover, it relates both to the postcolonial and post-Soviet present and to the future of comparative literature: it is a handbook, but also a laboratory.

Author : Sandra Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136766237

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Pregnant Pictures by Sandra Matthews Pdf

In this dazzling collection of over 200 photos of pregnant women taken from art libraries, childbirth manuals, maternity ads, contemporary art, and personal albums, the authors explore the paradox between image and reality. The photos illuminate how society creates feminine roles through the institution of pregnancy-and how women resist such roles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968191

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The Grotesque and the Unnatural by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosemary Overell,Brett Nicholls
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030256708

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Post-Truth and the Mediation of Reality by Rosemary Overell,Brett Nicholls Pdf

Our contemporary moment is preoccupied with arbitrating ‘reality’. With the spectre of buzzwords like ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truth’ we find a scramble to locate or fix some sort of universal ‘real’ beneath what are positioned as ‘fake’ articulations. To engage with this crisis, this collection argues for the importance of a new conjuncture in communication and cultural studies of media. Building on Hall’s understanding of ‘conjuncture’ as a way of grasping moments within hegemonic struggle, the essays suggest that the current moment requires a revitalization of the concept of conjuncture.

Author : Stefan Hulfeld,Rudi Risatti,Andrea Sommer-Mathis
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783990129371

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Grotesk! by Stefan Hulfeld,Rudi Risatti,Andrea Sommer-Mathis Pdf

Kuriose Figuren, minutiöse Studien nicht ebenmäßiger Gesichter, szenische ›Wimmelbilder‹ und Maskenfiguren der Commedia all'improvviso: 125 Zeichnungen Lodovico Ottavio Burnacinis (1636–1707) im Bestand des Theatermuseums in Wien sind den Themen Groteske und Comoedie zuzuordnen. Geprägt von leuchtenden Farben und lustvoller Veränderung ›natürlicher‹ Proportionen, zeugen sie von einem Menschenbild, in dem die Grenzen zwischen dem Pflanzlichen, Tierischen, Mechanischen und Humanen verschwimmen. In dieser Konfusion erzeugt die Unheimlichkeit des Un- oder Andersförmigen das Lachen. Die Wiederentdeckung der ikonografisch bemerkenswerten Blätter Burnacinis regte zu einer multidisziplinären Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema der Groteske und ihrer Rezeption an. Die zwei Abschnitte dieses Bandes befassen sich mit den Vorbildern Burnacinis und der zeitgenössischen Ikonografie des Grotesken, mit grotesken Praktiken in Literatur, Theater und Film bis in die Gegenwart sowie mit der Groteske als ästhetischer Kategorie.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4927875

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Comparative Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liam E Semler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429684784

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The Early Modern Grotesque by Liam E Semler Pdf

The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120 numbered items with accompanying explanatory Notes. Each Note provides clarification of difficult terms in the source text, locating it in the context of early modern English and Continental discourses on the grotesque. The Notes also direct readers to further English sources and relevant modern scholarship. This volume includes a detailed introduction surveying the vocabulary, form and meaning of the grotesque from its arrival as a word, concept and aesthetic in 16th century England to its early maturity in the 18th century. The Introduction, Items and Notes, complemented by illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography, provide an unprecedented view of the evolving complexity and diversity of the early modern English grotesque. While giving due credit to Wolfgang Kayser and Mikhail Bakhtin as masters of grotesque theory, this ground-breaking book aims to provoke new, evidence-based approaches to understanding the specifically English grotesque. The textual archive from 1500-1700 is a rich and intriguing record that offers much to interested readers and researchers in the fields of literary studies, theatre studies and art history.