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Grotesque

Author : Natsuo Kirino
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307267296
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Grotesque written by Natsuo Kirino and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gift of the Grotesque

Author : Daniel J. D. Stulac
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gift of the Grotesque written by Daniel J. D. Stulac and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No other book of the Bible is quite so R-rated. No other book is quite so ugly or grotesque. Judges offers its reader not a roster of angelic saints, but an astonishing tempest of brutality, feces, slaughter, assassinations, conspiracy, genocide, child sacrifice, rage, betrayal, mass graves, gang-rape, corpse mutilation, kidnapping, and civil war.” Gift of the Grotesque offers readers a series of seven theological essays focused on one of the most confusing and challenging books in the biblical canon. Stulac’s captivating style combines sensitive exegesis with broadly accessible meditations on culture, art, music, literature, memoir, theology, and spirituality. Better understood as a companion rather than a biblical commentary, this unusual resource will kickstart the theological imagination of anyone who struggles to understand how the book of Judges points forward to the life and work of Jesus Christ. Dare to follow an experienced biblical scholar into the heart of Israel’s theological Dark Age, and you will encounter there the transformative Word of God in ways you do not expect. The prophetic book of Judges, writes Stulac, “wants to gut you like a fish, because on the far side of that unenviable prospect, it wants you alive like you’ve never lived before.”

Real World

Author : Natsuo Kirino
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307269450
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Real World written by Natsuo Kirino and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate and astute, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.

The Grotesque

Author : Patrick McGrath
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307822974
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Grotesque written by Patrick McGrath and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell.

The Grotesque and the Unnatural

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968197
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book The Grotesque and the Unnatural written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literature and the Grotesque

Author : Michael Jon Meyer
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051837933
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Grotesque written by Michael Jon Meyer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Grotesque

Author : Philip Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315309432
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Grotesque written by Philip Thomson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful overview of the grotesque and its use in a number of literary genres including novels, drama and poetry. After providing a historical summary of the term, the book discusses the various defining aspects of the grotesque and its relationship to other terms and modes of literature, such as satire, the comic and parody. The final chapter presents the functions and purpose of the grotesque in literature. This book will be a useful resource for those studying literary theory and literary works which include an element of the grotesque.

Grotesque

Author : Justin Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134105983
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Grotesque written by Justin Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film. The book: presents a history of the literary grotesque from Classical writing to the present examines theoretical debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts introduce readers to key writers and artists of the grotesque, from Homer to Rabelais, Shakespeare, Carson McCullers and David Cronenberg analyses key terms such as disharmony, deformed and distorted bodies, misfits and freaks explores the grotesque in relation to queer theory, post-colonialism and the carnivalesque. Grotesque presents readers with an original and distinctive overview of this vital genre and is an essential guide for students of literature, art history and film studies.

The Grotesque

Author : Philip John Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780416081800
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The Grotesque written by Philip John Thomson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque

Author : Dieter Meindl
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826210791
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque written by Dieter Meindl and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By synthesizing Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and Heidegger's philosophy of Being, American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque seeks to demonstrate that American fiction from Poe to Pynchon has tried to convey the existential dimension: the pre-individual totality or flow of life, which defines itself against the mind and its linguistic capacity. Dieter Meindl shows how the grotesque, through its self-contradictory nature, has been instrumental in expressing this reality-conception, an antirationalist stance in basic agreement with existential thought. The historical validity of this new metaphysics, which grants precedence to Being--the context of cognition--over the cognizant subject, must be upheld in the face of deconstructive animadversions upon any metaphysics of presence. The notion of decentering the subject, Meindl argues, did not originate with deconstruction. The existential grotesque confirms the protomodernist character of classic American fiction. Meindl traces its course through a number of well-known texts by Melville, James, Gilman, Anderson, Faulkner, and O'Connor, among others. To convey life conceived as motion, these writers had to capture--that is, immobilize--it in their art: an essentially distortive and, therefore, grotesque device. Melville's "Bartleby," dealing with a mort vivant, is the seminal text in this mode of indirectness. As opposed to the existential grotesque, which grants access to a preverbal realm, the linguistic grotesque of postmodern fiction works on the assumption that all reality is referable to language in a textual universe. American Fiction and the Metaphysics of the Grotesque will significantly alter our understanding of certain traditions in American literature.

Ornament and the Grotesque

Author : Alessandra Zamperini
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500238561
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ornament and the Grotesque written by Alessandra Zamperini and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish survey of the grotesque style in European painting and decoration, from Roman times to the late nineteenth century. In the fifteenth century, the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea were discovered in Rome. The first explorers to enter the interior of this spectacular palace complex had the sensation of finding themselves in a series of grottoes, and this is why the fanciful frescoes and floor mosaics discovered there were called "grotesques." A fashionable form of ornamentation in ancient Rome, grotesques consist of loosely connected motifs, often incorporating human figures, birds, animals, and monsters, and arranged around medallions filled with painted scenes. Fifteenth-century artists such as Perugino, Signorelli, Filippino Lippi, and Mantegna copied the ancient Roman examples; the most famous use of the style was Raphael's Loggie in the Vatican Palace, which became immensely famous and influential all over Europe. This magnificently illustrated book covers the entire history of the grotesque in European art, from its Roman origins through the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. It illuminates how grotesque decoration was transformed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries into arabesque, chinoiserie, and singeries, and how it continued in the nineteenth century, leading eventually to Art Nouveau. 250 color illustrations.

The Grotesque in Art and Literature

Author : James Luther Adams
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802842671
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Grotesque in Art and Literature written by James Luther Adams and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Grotesque Touch

Author : Amy King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469664644
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Grotesque Touch written by Amy King and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, television shows, novels, short stories, poems, book covers, and paintings, King shows how contemporary media reuse salacious and stereotypical depictions of relationships between women living within the plantation system to confront its legacy in the present. The vestiges of these relationships--enslavers and enslaved women, employers and domestic servants, lovers and rivals--negate characters' efforts to imagine non-abusive approaches to power and agency. King's work goes beyond any other study to date to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, and nationality in U.S. and Caribbean depictions of violence between women in the wake of slavery.

American Grotesque: Account Clay Shaw-Jim Garrison Affair City New Orleans

Author : James Kirkwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Grotesque: Account Clay Shaw-Jim Garrison Affair City New Orleans written by James Kirkwood and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Female Grotesque

Author : Mary Russo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136037500
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Female Grotesque written by Mary Russo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Grotesque Figures

Author : Virginia E. Swain
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429233
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Grotesque Figures written by Virginia E. Swain and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque Figures, Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter of the eighteenth century made itself felt in Baudelaire's modern poetry in the pervasive textual and figural presence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Not only do Rousseau's ideas inform Baudelaire's theory of the grotesque, but Rousseau makes numerous appearances in Baudelaire's poetry as a caricature or type representing the hold of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution over Baudelaire and his contemporaries. As a character in "Le Poème du hashisch" and the Petits Poèmes en prose, "Rousseau" gives the grotesque a human form. Swain's literary, cultural, and historical analysis deepens our understanding of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century aesthetics by relating Baudelaire's poetic theory and practice to Enlightenment debates about allegory and the grotesque in the arts. Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo, and the presence of the grotesque in the modern.

American Grotesque

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Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1627310037
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book American Grotesque written by and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Grotesque is a lavish retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood photographer William Mortensen (1897–1965), an innovative pictorialist visionary whom Ansel Adams called the "Antichrist" and to whom Anton LaVey dedicated The Satanic Bible. Mortensen's countless technical innovations and inspired use of special effects prefigures the development of digital manipulation and Photoshop. Includes a gallery of more than one hundred striking photographs in duotone and color, many of them previously unseen, and accompanying essays by Mortensen and others on his life, work, techniques, and influence.