The Female Grotesque
Title | The Female Grotesque PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Russo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136037500 |
The grotesque - the exagggerated, the deformed, the monstrous - has been a well-considered subject for students of comparative literature and art. In a major addition to the literature of art, cultural criticism and feminist studies, Mary Russo re-examines the grotesque in the light of gender, exploring the works of Angela Carter David Cronenberg Bahktin Kristeva Freud Zizek. Mary Russo looks at the portrayal of the grotesque in Western culture and by combining the iconographic and the historical, locates the role of the woman's body in the discourse of the grotesque.
The Female Grotesque
Title | The Female Grotesque PDF eBook |
Author | Mary J. Russo |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Body, Human, in literature |
ISBN | 9780415901642 |
Examines the grotesque in the light of gender, locating the role of the woman's body in its discourse.
The Female Grotesque
Title | The Female Grotesque PDF eBook |
Author | Vera Lemecha |
Publisher | |
Pages | 95 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Grotesque in art |
ISBN | 9780968440902 |
Grotesque
Title | Grotesque PDF eBook |
Author | Natsuo Kirino |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2007-03-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307267296 |
Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Sato floats around among them, trying to fit in.Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead — both have become prostitutes and both have been brutally murdered. Natsuo Kirino, celebrated author of Out, seamlessly weaves together the stories of these women’s struggles within the conventions and restrictions of Japanese society. At once a psychological investigation of the pressures facing Japanese women and a classic work of noir fiction, Grotesque is a brilliantly twisted novel of ambition, desire, beauty, cruelty, and identity by one of our most electrifying writers.
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 |
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.
Experimental Fashion
Title | Experimental Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Francesca Granata |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2017-02-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1786720299 |
Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.
Women and Other Monsters
Title | Women and Other Monsters PDF eBook |
Author | Jess Zimmerman |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2021-03-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807054933 |
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we underline the idea that women who step out of bounds—who are angry or greedy or ambitious, who are overtly sexual or not sexy enough—aren’t just outside the norm. They’re unnatural. Monstrous. But maybe, the traits we’ve been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths. Through fresh analysis of 11 female monsters, including Medusa, the Harpies, the Furies, and the Sphinx, Jess Zimmerman takes us on an illuminating feminist journey through mythology. She guides women (and others) to reexamine their relationships with traits like hunger, anger, ugliness, and ambition, teaching readers to embrace a new image of the female hero: one that looks a lot like a monster, with the agency and power to match. Often, women try to avoid the feeling of monstrousness, of being grotesquely alien, by tamping down those qualities that we’re told fall outside the bounds of natural femininity. But monsters also get to do what other female characters—damsels, love interests, and even most heroines—do not. Monsters get to be complete, unrestrained, and larger than life. Today, women are becoming increasingly aware of the ways rules and socially constructed expectations have diminished us. After seeing where compliance gets us—harassed, shut out, and ruled by predators—women have never been more ready to become repellent, fearsome, and ravenous.