Search Results - "Grotesque

Novels of the contemporary extreme

Table of Contents: “…Schehr -- Michel Houellebecq: a fin de siècle for the twentieth century / Sabine van Wesemael -- Beyond the extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the world / Alain-Philippe Durand -- Amélie Nothomb's dialectic of the sublime and the grotesque / Martine Guyot-Bender -- Violence biting its own tail: Martin Amis's Yellow dog / Jean-Michel Ganteau -- Beauty and death as simulacra in Ray Loriga's Caídos del cielo and El hombre que inventó Manhattan / Kathryn Everly -- Sex, drugs and violence in Lucía Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, Prozac y dudas / Catherine Bourland Ross -- On human parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli extreme / Adia Mendelson-Maoz.…”
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Rethinking Japanese Feminisms /

Table of Contents: “…Bullock -- Flower empowerment : rethinking Japan's traditional arts as women's labor / Nancy Stalker -- Women's labor in the Japanese tourist industry / Chris McMorran -- Seeing double : the feminism of ambiguity in the art of Takabatake Kashō / Leslie Winston -- Feminist acts of reading : Ariyoshi Sawako, Sono Ayako, and representation of lived experience in postwar Japan / Barbara Hartley -- Dangerous women and dangerous stories : gendered narration in Kirino Natsuo's grotesque and real world / Kathryn Hemmann -- Yamakawa Kikue and Edward Carpenter : translation, affiliation, and queer internationalism / Sarah Frederick -- Rethinking Japanese feminism through the lessons of ūman ribu : notes toward a praxis of critical transnational feminism / Setsu Shigematsu -- Toward postcolonial feminist subjectivity : Korean women's redress movement for "comfort women" / Akwi Seo -- Queering friendship : Takemura Kazuko, feminism, and queer theory in a global context / J. …”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…Maier -- Haec monstra edidit : Translating Lucan in the early seventeenth century / Yanick Maes -- Haunted by Horror : The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama / Susanna Braund -- "Fantasies so varied and bizarre" : The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the "grotesque" / Michael Squire -- Epilogue -- Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero / Miriam Griffin.…”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…Maier -- Haec monstra edidit : Translating Lucan in the early seventeenth century / Yanick Maes -- Haunted by Horror : The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama / Susanna Braund -- "Fantasies so varied and bizarre" : The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the "grotesque" / Michael Squire -- Epilogue -- Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero / Miriam Griffin.…”
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil -- "Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. …”
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Huff -- White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil -- "Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. …”
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