Search Results - "grotesque"

Strange bodies gender and identity in the novels of Carson McCullers / by Gleeson-White, Sarah, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Freakish adolescents : The heart is a lonely hunter and The member of the wedding -- Queer grotesques : The heart is a lonely hunter and Reflections in a golden eye -- The masquerade : The heart is a lonely hunter, The member of the wedding, and The ballad of the sad café -- Two bodies in one : The heart is a lonely hunter and The ballad of the sad café.…”
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Strange bodies gender and identity in the novels of Carson McCullers / by Gleeson-White, Sarah, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Freakish adolescents : The heart is a lonely hunter and The member of the wedding -- Queer grotesques : The heart is a lonely hunter and Reflections in a golden eye -- The masquerade : The heart is a lonely hunter, The member of the wedding, and The ballad of the sad café -- Two bodies in one : The heart is a lonely hunter and The ballad of the sad café.…”
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Batman unauthorized vigilantes, jokers, and heroes in Gotham City /

Table of Contents: “…Frank Miller's new Batman and the grotesque /…”
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Batman unauthorized vigilantes, jokers, and heroes in Gotham City /

Table of Contents: “…Frank Miller's new Batman and the grotesque /…”
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film / by Verstraten, Peter

Table of Contents: “…From Insubordinate ­Playfulness to Subversive Irony; 9. From Grotesque Caricature to Grotesque Satire; Conclusion.…”
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film / by Verstraten, Peter

Table of Contents: “…From Insubordinate ­Playfulness to Subversive Irony; 9. From Grotesque Caricature to Grotesque Satire; Conclusion.…”
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Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel / by Hume, Kathryn, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The author-reader contract -- The narrative speed in contemporary fiction -- Modalities of complaint -- Conjugations of the grotesque -- Violence -- Attacking the reader's ontological assumptions -- Why read aggressive fictions?…”
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Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel / by Hume, Kathryn, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The author-reader contract -- The narrative speed in contemporary fiction -- Modalities of complaint -- Conjugations of the grotesque -- Violence -- Attacking the reader's ontological assumptions -- Why read aggressive fictions?…”
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Imagining modernity in the Andes by Archibald, Priscilla, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Andean modernities -- Decolonizing the aristocratic republic -- Literary indigenismo -- Science in the Andes -- Andean cosmopolitanism: the city as the female grotesque -- Urban transculturations: -- Conclusion : film, indigenous video and indigeneity in the Andes.…”
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Imagining modernity in the Andes by Archibald, Priscilla, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Andean modernities -- Decolonizing the aristocratic republic -- Literary indigenismo -- Science in the Andes -- Andean cosmopolitanism: the city as the female grotesque -- Urban transculturations: -- Conclusion : film, indigenous video and indigeneity in the Andes.…”
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Gao Xingjian's idea of theatre from the word to the image / by Łabędzka, Izabella

Table of Contents: “…Chinese avant-garde: new trends in Chinese exploratory and experimental theatre -- Actor in the space of illusion and anti-illusion -- New narrative strategies -- From realism to sur-realism: poets of the absurd and the grotesque -- Between life and death, reality and dream: towards an oneiric imagination -- In search of the total theatre.…”
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Gao Xingjian's idea of theatre from the word to the image / by Łabędzka, Izabella

Table of Contents: “…Chinese avant-garde: new trends in Chinese exploratory and experimental theatre -- Actor in the space of illusion and anti-illusion -- New narrative strategies -- From realism to sur-realism: poets of the absurd and the grotesque -- Between life and death, reality and dream: towards an oneiric imagination -- In search of the total theatre.…”
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The Republic of Cthulhu: Lovecraft, the Weird Tale, and Conspiracy Theory / by Wilson, Eric Michael, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Gods and monsters -- The criminology of the nameless : parapolitics and Alētheia -- From the sublime : "The call of Cthulhu" (1926) -- To the grotesque : "The horror at Red Hook" (1925) -- N. Lat. 40.7117°, W. …”
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The Republic of Cthulhu: Lovecraft, the Weird Tale, and Conspiracy Theory / by Wilson, Eric Michael, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Gods and monsters -- The criminology of the nameless : parapolitics and Alētheia -- From the sublime : "The call of Cthulhu" (1926) -- To the grotesque : "The horror at Red Hook" (1925) -- N. Lat. 40.7117°, W. …”
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Race Characters : Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream / by Rana, Swati

Table of Contents: “…Ameen Rihani: the hyperproduction of character -- Jose Garcia Villa's book of grotesques: character and compulsion -- Many parts of Pocho: the discontinuous characters of Jose Antonio Villarreal -- Building American character: Dalip Singh Saund's model of minority -- Paule Marshall's Brown girls: structures of character -- The old constellation.…”
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Race Characters : Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream / by Rana, Swati

Table of Contents: “…Ameen Rihani: the hyperproduction of character -- Jose Garcia Villa's book of grotesques: character and compulsion -- Many parts of Pocho: the discontinuous characters of Jose Antonio Villarreal -- Building American character: Dalip Singh Saund's model of minority -- Paule Marshall's Brown girls: structures of character -- The old constellation.…”
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Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / by Duggan, Anne E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.…”
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Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / by Duggan, Anne E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.…”
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Reading embodied citizenship disability, narrative, and the body politic / by Russell, Emily, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Domesticating the exceptional: Those extraordinary twins and the limits of American individualism -- Marvelous and very real: the grotesque in The heart is a lonely hunter and Wise blood -- The uniform body: spectacles of disability and the Vietnam War -- Conceiving the freakish body: reimagining reproduction in Geek love and My year of meats -- Some assembly required: the disability politics of Infinite jest -- Conclusion: inclusion, fixing, and legibility.…”
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Reading embodied citizenship disability, narrative, and the body politic / by Russell, Emily, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Domesticating the exceptional: Those extraordinary twins and the limits of American individualism -- Marvelous and very real: the grotesque in The heart is a lonely hunter and Wise blood -- The uniform body: spectacles of disability and the Vietnam War -- Conceiving the freakish body: reimagining reproduction in Geek love and My year of meats -- Some assembly required: the disability politics of Infinite jest -- Conclusion: inclusion, fixing, and legibility.…”
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