• The grotesque body is a concept, or literary trope, put forward by Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin in his study of François Rabelais' work. The...
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    at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious...
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    Body horror, or biological horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction that intentionally showcases grotesque or psychologically disturbing violations of...
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  • Dead Grotesque body, a literary trope conceptualized by Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin in his study of François Rabelais' work Grotesque dance...
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    In architecture, a grotesque (/ɡroʊˈtɛsk/) is a fantastic or mythical figure carved from stone and fixed to the walls or roof of a building. A chimera...
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  • its own world, combine but are not merged in the unity of the event." Grotesque body Dialogue (Bakhtin) Culture of popular laughter Bakhtin, Mikhail (1984)...
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    sans-serif designs are usually divided into these major groups: § Grotesque and § Neo-grotesque, § Geometric, § Humanist and § Other or mixed. Sans-serif typefaces...
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    Rabelais showed himself to be a master of ribaldry (technically called grotesque body) in his Gargantua and other works. The Life and Opinions of Tristram...
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    Carpe diem, carpe noctem Elitism Epicureanism Egoism Egotheism Eugenics Grotesque body Hierarchy Individualism Iconoclasm Jungian psychology Law of the jungle...
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  • Grotesque dance (French: danse grotesque; Italian: ballo grottesco or danza grottesca) is a category of theatrical dance that became more clearly differentiated...
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  • Deconstruction and the Grotesque: Martin Margiela / Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body. London — New York, I.B.Tauris:...
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  • religion Amen or The Pederasty God is Great (no. 2) Fountain (Duchamp) Grotesque body Transgressive art Scandals in art List of depictions of urine in art...
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    Rabelais and His World (category Grotesque)
    where new life is forged, thus connecting degradation to renewal. The grotesque body is one of unashamed excess, anathema to authority and pious austerity...
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    coordinates by which one can reassess and judges one's own experiences.' Grotesque body Juan Bobo of Puerto Rico Malandro Miwok Coyote and Silver Fox Native...
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  • Philosophy Carnivalesque Chronotope Culture of popular laughter Dialogue (Bakhtin) Grotesque body Heteroglossia Menippean satire Polyphony (literature)...
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  • Grotesque (グロテスク, Gurotesuku) is a 2009 Japanese exploitation horror film written and directed by Kōji Shiraishi. A young couple, Aki Miyasita and Kazuo...
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  • literature, "scatological" is a term to denote the literary trope of the grotesque body. It is used to describe works that make particular reference to excretion...
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  • HadžiMuhamedović, schizochronotopia is a rift occurring within the same body/landscape, through which the past and the present of place have rendered...
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  • restored, and follows a government henchman, an oprichnik, through a day of grotesque events. Sorokin in one of the later interviews confessed that he did not...
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  • naturalism: the 'testing of the idea' never avoids the degenerate or grotesque side of earthly existence. The man of the idea encounters "worldly evil...
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  • Deconstruction and the Grotesque: Martin Margiela / Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body. London — New York, I.B.Tauris:...
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    functions of thought, speech, and the soul by translating them into the grotesque body, which serves to renew society and the world, as a release for impulses...
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  • Philosophy Carnivalesque Chronotope Culture of popular laughter Dialogue (Bakhtin) Grotesque body Heteroglossia Menippean satire Polyphony (literature)...
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    a gaudily-marked reptilian body, and the face of a just and honest man". The pleasant human face on this grotesque body evokes the insincere fraudster...
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  • Philosophy Carnivalesque Chronotope Culture of popular laughter Dialogue (Bakhtin) Grotesque body Heteroglossia Menippean satire Polyphony (literature)...
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    Brandon Grotesque is a sans-serif typeface designed by Hannes von Döhren of HVD Fonts during 2009 and 2010. Spacing and kerning was done by Igino Marini...
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    Outhouse#Races and pranks Bum trilogy Dick joke Flatulence humour Gross out Grotesque body Interactive urinal Le Pétomane Lighting farts Mr. Methane Roland the...
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  • Philosophy Carnivalesque Chronotope Culture of popular laughter Dialogue (Bakhtin) Grotesque body Heteroglossia Menippean satire Polyphony (literature)...
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  • Carpe diem, carpe noctem Elitism Epicureanism Egoism Egotheism Eugenics Grotesque body Hierarchy Individualism Iconoclasm Jungian psychology Law of the jungle...
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  • his whole life: with his eyes, lips, hands, soul, spirit, with his whole body and deeds. He invests his entire self in discourse, and this discourse enters...
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