Grotesque Ambivalence

Grotesque Ambivalence
Title Grotesque Ambivalence PDF eBook
Author Mary Cosgrove
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 237
Release 2012-03-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110934205

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Die erste englischsprachige Untersuchung der Prosa von Albert Drach (1902-1995) arbeitet die Originalität von Drachs Autobiografie im Kontext gegenwärtiger Holocaust-Diskurse heraus. Dabei geht es um das Verhältnis zwischen Drachs komisch-grotesker Sprache und dem melancholischen Darstellungsmodus in der Holocaust-Autobiografie. Drachs Prosa legt die totalitären Mechanismen seiner Zeit zugleich leidenschaftlich und kritisch bloß.

Bartók and the Grotesque

Bartók and the Grotesque
Title Bartók and the Grotesque PDF eBook
Author Julie A. Brown
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 204
Release 2007-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 9780754657774

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In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bartók engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bartók's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bartók was composing.

Literature and the Grotesque

Literature and the Grotesque
Title Literature and the Grotesque PDF eBook
Author Michael J. Meyer
Publisher BRILL
Pages 207
Release 2023-04-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9004656472

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Bartók and the Grotesque

Bartók and the Grotesque
Title Bartók and the Grotesque PDF eBook
Author Julie Brown
Publisher Routledge
Pages 193
Release 2017-07-05
Genre Music
ISBN 1351574574

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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), Bart ngaged 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 Bart eveloped 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 Bart as composing.

Masters of the Grotesque

Masters of the Grotesque
Title Masters of the Grotesque PDF eBook
Author Schuy R. Weishaar
Publisher McFarland
Pages 221
Release 2012-10-16
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1476600600

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The concepts and theories surrounding the aesthetic category of the grotesque are explored in this book by pursuing their employment in the films of American auteurs Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch. The author argues that interpreting these directors' films through the lens of the grotesque allows us1to situate both the auteurs and the films within a long history of the grotesque in art and aesthetics. This cultural tradition effectively subsumes the contribution of any artist or1genre that intersects it but also affords the artist or genre--the auteur and the genre filmmaker--a pantheon and an abundance of images, themes, and motifs through which he1or she can subversively represent the world and our place in it.

The Grotesque in Art and Literature

The Grotesque in Art and Literature
Title The Grotesque in Art and Literature PDF eBook
Author James Luther Adams
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Pages 308
Release 1997
Genre Art
ISBN 9780802842671

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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.

The Grotesque in the Works of Bruno Jasieński

The Grotesque in the Works of Bruno Jasieński
Title The Grotesque in the Works of Bruno Jasieński PDF eBook
Author Agata Krzychylkiewicz
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 404
Release 2006
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9783039112173

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This book is the first critical attempt made in any language to re-examine the entire oeuvre of Bruno Jasieński (1901-1938). It takes into account the writer's lifelong concerns but places them in the context of the universal value of his writing, generated by his modernist passions and his fascination with the grotesque - an artistic device that was consonant with his need to portray life in all its complexities. The author relies on the grotesque as an element that unifies Jasieński's futuristic poetry with his prose. Especially important in this regard is the close reading of Jasieński's satiric grotesques written in the Soviet Union. The author does not avoid the intricacies and difficult questions of Jasieński's ideological commitment but focuses mainly on the consequences that the highly ambivalent and ambiguous nature of the grotesque has on the interpretation of his work.