单词 GROTESQUE的词源
From French, from Old Italian (pittura) grottesca cave painting, from grottesco of a cave, from grotta cave.
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If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.
I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition, for both women, prostitution meant power. Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller, a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan.
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Erotic
Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese ...
Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Placing the consumer-subject within mass culture -- Erotic grotesque nonsense as montage -- Japanese modern culture as politics -- The documentary impulse -- Japanese modern sites ...
Miriam Rom Silverberg,
2009
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The
Grotesque in Art and Literature: Theological Reflections
This fascinating book redresses that neglect by exploring the religious meaning of the grotesque and its importance as a subject for theological inquiry.
James Luther Adams, Wilson Yates, Robert Penn Warren,
1997
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The Female
Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity
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.
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Absolute Erotic, Absolute
Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and ...
In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor.
Explores the literary theme of the grotesque in twenty essays exploring works of authors as varied as Aristophanes, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, and Flannery O'Connor.
Harold Bloom, Blake Hobby,
2009
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Masters of the
Grotesque: The Cinema of Tim Burton, Terry ...
"The concepts and theories surrounding the aesthetic category of the grotesque are explored in this book by pursuing their deployment in the films of American auteurs Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch"--Provided ...
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The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the
Grotesque
The remarkable meshing of these two diametrically opposed yet inextricably intertwined facets of literature (and of life) makes for an intriguing sphere of investigation, for the carnival spirit is animated by a human need to dissolve ...
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Bartók and the
Grotesque: Studies in Modernity, the Body and ...
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.
The Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term.
Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund,
2013
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Earnings season distracts from 'grotesque' market bubbles
After 17 hours of overnight negotiations, Greece and the eurozone struck a bailout deal Monday, with Athens folding after “extensive mental ... «MarketWatch, 七月 15»
Greece crisis: Osborne seeks to block use of British-backed fund in …
“It's a grotesque betrayal of everything the European project was supposed to stand for,” he wrote several hours before the final deal emerged. «The Guardian, 七月 15»
UFC 189 Medical Suspensions: Chad Mendes and Rory MacDonald …
Lawler had a grotesque gash in his lip, but it wasn't very serious, as he received some stitches and will only be out until Aug. 26. MacDonald ... «MMAWeekly, 七月 15»
See Jared Leto's Menacing Joker in Eerie 'Suicide Squad' Trailer
Jared Leto's grotesque take on the Joker provides a menacing high point in the trailer for the upcoming super-villain flick Suicide Squad. «RollingStone.com, 七月 15»
Penn & Teller on Broadway review – still magical after all these years
You know you're being fooled and duped and bamboozled, but you fall for it anyway, from the mildly grotesque theatrics of the East Indian ... «The Guardian, 七月 15»
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Greece's defeat and a lesson for Britain
With grotesque hyperbole, Aslef's Mick Whelan says planned union reforms smack of Hitler's executions in the 1930s while Unite's Len ... «Daily Mail, 七月 15»
#ThisIsACoup: Germany faces backlash over tough Greece bailout …
“It is, presumably, meant to be an offer Greece can't accept; but even so, it's a grotesque betrayal of everything the European project was ... «The Guardian, 七月 15»
Guillermo del Toro Details His Plans For a Jabba the Hutt 'Star Wars …
A deep and honest love of grotesque movie monsters. Self-deprecating weight humor. A movie concept that will never get made. We certainly ... «ScreenCrush, 七月 15»
Chart of the day: A cautionary tale from Karachi for investors in China
“The Fed and the ECB have created similarly grotesque stock-market bubbles in an effort to shore up their anemic economic expansions. «MarketWatch, 七月 15»
Path of Exile: The Awakening
... a dead lake, corrupted mines, heroic dreams, and a grotesque beast. Act 4 delivers lore in more unified sections, with backstory to legendary ... «Game Informer, 七月 15»