Search Results - "grotesque"

Rewriting Germany from the margins "other" German literature of the 1980s and 1990s / by Fachinger, Petra, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Writing back to Keller and Goethe: Franco Biondi and Akif Pirinçci -- (Post)colonial picaresque: Kerstin Jentzsch and Thomas Brussig -- Re-placing language: the poetry of Zehra Çirak and José Oliver -- Rewriting home: the border writing of Barbara Honigmann and Renan Demirkan -- Rewriting autobiography: Lea Fleischmann and Richard Chaim Schneider -- Rewriting Turkey: Barbara Frischmuth and Hanne Mede-Flock -- Writing back to liberal discourse: Feridun Zaimoglu's grotesque realism.…”
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Rewriting Germany from the margins "other" German literature of the 1980s and 1990s / by Fachinger, Petra, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Writing back to Keller and Goethe: Franco Biondi and Akif Pirinçci -- (Post)colonial picaresque: Kerstin Jentzsch and Thomas Brussig -- Re-placing language: the poetry of Zehra Çirak and José Oliver -- Rewriting home: the border writing of Barbara Honigmann and Renan Demirkan -- Rewriting autobiography: Lea Fleischmann and Richard Chaim Schneider -- Rewriting Turkey: Barbara Frischmuth and Hanne Mede-Flock -- Writing back to liberal discourse: Feridun Zaimoglu's grotesque realism.…”
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Tropics of savagery the culture of Japanese empire in comparative frame / by Tierney, Robert Thomas, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Erotic grotesque nonsense : the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Miriam Silverberg -- Visuality and identity : sinophone articulations across the Pacific / by Shu-mei Shih -- The politics of gender in colonial Korea : education, labor, and health, 1910-1945 / by Theodore Jun Yoo -- Frontier constitutions : Christianity and colonial empire in the nineteenth century / by John D. …”
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Tropics of savagery the culture of Japanese empire in comparative frame / by Tierney, Robert Thomas, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Erotic grotesque nonsense : the mass culture of Japanese modern times / by Miriam Silverberg -- Visuality and identity : sinophone articulations across the Pacific / by Shu-mei Shih -- The politics of gender in colonial Korea : education, labor, and health, 1910-1945 / by Theodore Jun Yoo -- Frontier constitutions : Christianity and colonial empire in the nineteenth century / by John D. …”
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The gothic vision three centuries of horror, terror and fear / by Cavallaro, Dani

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- The Frame of Reference: Theoretical Debates on Horror, Terror and Fear 1 -- Part 1: Darkness -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Dark Places 27 -- 2 Dark Times 38 -- 3 Dark Psyches 48 --Part 2: Haunting -- Introduction 61 -- 4 The Rhetoric of Haunting 65 -- 5 Spectral Forms 75 -- 6 Haunting Settings 85 --Part 3: Narrative and the Self -- Introduction 97 -- 7 Words and Visions 103 -- 8 Textual Identities 113 -- 9 Storytelling as Therapy 123 --Part 4: Child and Adult -- Introduction 135 -- 10 Families 141 -- 11 The Abandoned Child 150 -- 12 Childhood and Otherness 160 --Part 5: Monstrosity -- Introduction 171 -- 13 Vampires 179 -- 14 Hybrid and Grotesque Bodies 190 -- 15 The Abject 199 -- Epilogue 207.…”
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The gothic vision three centuries of horror, terror and fear / by Cavallaro, Dani

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- The Frame of Reference: Theoretical Debates on Horror, Terror and Fear 1 -- Part 1: Darkness -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Dark Places 27 -- 2 Dark Times 38 -- 3 Dark Psyches 48 --Part 2: Haunting -- Introduction 61 -- 4 The Rhetoric of Haunting 65 -- 5 Spectral Forms 75 -- 6 Haunting Settings 85 --Part 3: Narrative and the Self -- Introduction 97 -- 7 Words and Visions 103 -- 8 Textual Identities 113 -- 9 Storytelling as Therapy 123 --Part 4: Child and Adult -- Introduction 135 -- 10 Families 141 -- 11 The Abandoned Child 150 -- 12 Childhood and Otherness 160 --Part 5: Monstrosity -- Introduction 171 -- 13 Vampires 179 -- 14 Hybrid and Grotesque Bodies 190 -- 15 The Abject 199 -- Epilogue 207.…”
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Collectivism after modernism the art of social imagination after 1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: periodizing collectivism / Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette -- Internationaleries: collectivism, the grotesque, and Cold War functionalism / Jelena Stojanovic -- After the "descent to the everyday": Japanese collectivism from Hi Red Center to The Play, 1964-1973 / Reiko Tomii -- Art & language and the international form in Anglo-American collectivism / Chris Gilbert -- The collective camcorder in art and activism / Jesse Drew -- Performing revolution: Arte Calle, Grupo Provisional, and the response to the Cuban National Crisis, 1986-1989 / Rachel Weiss -- The Mexican Pentagon: adventures in collectivism during the 1970s / Rubén Gallo -- Artists' collectives: focus on New York, 1975-2000 / Alan W. …”
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Strategic Imaginations : Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture /

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Collectivism after modernism the art of social imagination after 1945 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: periodizing collectivism / Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette -- Internationaleries: collectivism, the grotesque, and Cold War functionalism / Jelena Stojanovic -- After the "descent to the everyday": Japanese collectivism from Hi Red Center to The Play, 1964-1973 / Reiko Tomii -- Art & language and the international form in Anglo-American collectivism / Chris Gilbert -- The collective camcorder in art and activism / Jesse Drew -- Performing revolution: Arte Calle, Grupo Provisional, and the response to the Cuban National Crisis, 1986-1989 / Rachel Weiss -- The Mexican Pentagon: adventures in collectivism during the 1970s / Rubén Gallo -- Artists' collectives: focus on New York, 1975-2000 / Alan W. …”
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Strategic Imaginations : Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture /

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The Reverend Mark Twain : Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content / by Fulton, Joe B., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian" : conformity and critique in Mark Twain's religious dialogue -- "Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys" : God, grotesques, and Sunday-school books in Mark Twain's Roughing it -- Mark Twain's hymns in prose : doxology and burlesque in The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain's cruci-fictions : "The second advent" as a burlesque life of Christ -- The morphology of martyrdom : fairy tale, epic, and hagiography in Personal recollections of Joan of Arc -- Q: What do Socrates and the Shorter catechism have in common? …”
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The Reverend Mark Twain : Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content / by Fulton, Joe B., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian" : conformity and critique in Mark Twain's religious dialogue -- "Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys" : God, grotesques, and Sunday-school books in Mark Twain's Roughing it -- Mark Twain's hymns in prose : doxology and burlesque in The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain's cruci-fictions : "The second advent" as a burlesque life of Christ -- The morphology of martyrdom : fairy tale, epic, and hagiography in Personal recollections of Joan of Arc -- Q: What do Socrates and the Shorter catechism have in common? …”
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Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire (post)modern interpretations / by Marx, Karl, 1818-1883

Table of Contents: “…Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte : 'hero' or 'grotesque mediocrity'? / Roger Price. The appeal of Bonapartism / Geoff Watkins -- The autonomy of the state? …”
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Perspectives on Percival Everett

Table of Contents: “…: from stereotype to cosmopolitan to grotesque in Percival Everett's Suder / Anthony Stewart -- Charting the body: Percival Everett's corporeal landscapes in re: f (gesture) / Sarah Wyman -- When the text becomes the stage: Percival Everett's performance turn in For Her dark skin / Robin G. …”
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Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire (post)modern interpretations / by Marx, Karl, 1818-1883

Table of Contents: “…Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte : 'hero' or 'grotesque mediocrity'? / Roger Price. The appeal of Bonapartism / Geoff Watkins -- The autonomy of the state? …”
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Perspectives on Percival Everett

Table of Contents: “…: from stereotype to cosmopolitan to grotesque in Percival Everett's Suder / Anthony Stewart -- Charting the body: Percival Everett's corporeal landscapes in re: f (gesture) / Sarah Wyman -- When the text becomes the stage: Percival Everett's performance turn in For Her dark skin / Robin G. …”
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Indiscretions : Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism / by Mellencamp, Patricia

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Indiscretions : Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism / by Mellencamp, Patricia

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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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