Search Results for grotesques

... argues is “a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images.” Through both a cognitive-literary and an empirical study of the metaphors in Donne's poems “The Bait” and “The Flea,” the authors discuss the grotesque nature of his poetic imagery as constituting “a clash of incompatibles...

..., a productive grotesque, is an archetype. However, with the support of some recent hypotheses in evolutionary anthropology and biology, the article refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. The cognitive perspective allows us to understand how our brains...

... Raffaello Gualterotti and an engraved grotesque ornament by Heinrich Aldegrever. Figure 2 The Devil Striking Witches out of the Book of Life, and Inscribing them in the Book of Death , woodcut, in Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium maleficarum , Milan: Apud Haeredes August. Tradati, 1608. Division...

... . Grady Joseph E. Oakley Todd Coulson Seana 1999 “Blending and Metaphor.” In Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics , edited by Gibbs Raymond J. Jr. Steen Gerard , 101 – 24 ( Amsterdam : John Benjamins ). Harpham Geoffrey Galt 1982 On the Grotesque: Strategies...

... a comparable case for the portraits of the rape/ suicide of Lucretia as repeated attempts to give visual expression to the irresolvable conflict between the demands of honor and the desire to live. The most brazen art of the irreconcilable is the grotesque, which Spolsky discusses as both playful images...

... echoes, Clarke’s style is comparatively vulgar and grotesque. Shelley’s ‘‘My eyes are full of blood’’ becomes ‘‘My eyes weep pus Clarke’s Beatrice refers directly to her womb, which is not even figura- tively signified in Shelley, and her diction degrades almost at once from the learned and allusive I...

... Duras society. Ste´phanie Vanasten is a lecturer in Dutch literature at Universite´ catholique de Louvain. Her PhD was a comparative study of the grotesque in the work of Gu¨nter Grass and Hugo Claus. Her current research focuses on the position of Dutch literature from Belgium, especially...

... to the vain pretensions of the mighty), and the use of the grotesque. Menippean comparisons, emerging 13 through an array of deflationary methods, are characteristically reductive. Menippean discourse evolved throughout the classical...

..., Peter 1998 “The Grotesque of the Body Electric,” in Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words , edited by Michael Mayerfield Bell and Michael Gardiner, 78 -94 (London: Sage). Holquist, Michael 1990 “Introduction,” in Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by M. M. Bakhtin...

... City, NY: Anchor). Thomson, Philip 1972 The Grotesque (London: Methuen). Tsur, Reuven 1977 A Perception-Oriented Theory of Metre (Tel Aviv: Porter Institute). 1987 On Metaphoring (Jerusalem: Israel Science Publishers). 1992a Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics (Amsterdam...

... aspects of religious and mystic poetry (Chapters 7 and 8), and the grotesque (Chapter 10). Chapter 11 compares the ways in which two texts, one by the eleventh-century poet Ibn Gabirol and one by the seventeenth-century poet Milton, achieve very different effects through their choice of one of two...

.... The grotesque creatures born of these games were distinct hybrids, with head, torso, midriff, and lower limbs each coming from a different hand, and from a different visual vocabulary. An earlier precedent would be Giuseppe Arcimboldo's late sixteenth-century composite paintings, in which he assembled uncanny...

... of these narratives deal with the gulag as ‘‘Room taboo others present both the ‘‘zone’’ (the camps) and the ‘‘larger zone’’ (the USSR) allegorically, through dystopian satire and the grotesque, which frequently involves the realization of somatic...

... of these narratives deal with the gulag as ‘‘Room taboo others present both the ‘‘zone’’ (the camps) and the ‘‘larger zone’’ (the USSR) allegorically, through dystopian satire and the grotesque, which frequently involves the realization of somatic...

... of these narratives deal with the gulag as ‘‘Room taboo others present both the ‘‘zone’’ (the camps) and the ‘‘larger zone’’ (the USSR) allegorically, through dystopian satire and the grotesque, which frequently involves the realization of somatic...

... Chauvet bison man . Ancient Assyrian and Egyptian religion is replete with gods of hybrid forms, such as the Lamassu, as is the mythology of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance of Western Europe, produced hybrids in the form of monsters, grotesques, and combinations...

..., Stryjkowski does not use Yiddish expressions that most Polish read- ers would associate with Yiddish but that do not have a grotesque effect, for example, lekhaim, sholem aleikhem, gut shabes, mazl tov. Instead of them, he uses literal Polish renderings, for example, na zdrowie (to health), dobrej soboty...

... of smooth correctness and politeness. The text he gave me was truly prodigious, featuring a kind of science-fiction story about a writer at the end of the world, both grotesque and obscure. Artificial intelligence gave rise to a kind of art brut in which our more or less conscious imaginations...

... modern fair, anthropomorphic Culture/Nature reversals were thought of as ‘‘Nature’s wonders ‘‘curiosities as well as grotesque playful displays of showmen’s trickery (a famous example is the fair’s presentations of the ‘‘talking’’ pig...

... are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees, - if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely...