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Sublime and grotesque:exploring the liminal positioning of clowns between oppositional aesthetic categories
2019
The horror clown is a potential rooted in the liminalities that are an integral part of the clown figure per se. Drawing on anthropological work and the study of popular culture, this paper argues that clowns can be placed between different dualistic frames such as the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the grotesque, and fear and disgust. This positioning and the ways in which clowns operate between these categories are transmitted aesthetically. In this paper the dualistic aesthetics and violent potential of clowns is examined through three different clown examples: the ritual clown, the circus clown and the horror clown. Field observations made by Keisalo of the Chapayeka rituals cl…
« Négatifs & clichés du XIXe siècle »
2011
L'ouvrage de Jean-Louis Cabanès constitue une synthèse personnelle et magistrale qui touche un grand nombre d'aspects de la littérature française du ! e siècle. « Empirique et peu systématique » (p. 15), de l'aveu de son auteur, cet essai foisonnant évoque tour à tour les plus grandes figures de ce siècle, sans se borner à l'étude d'un genre, quand bien même le récit en demeure la forme privilégiée. On y croise donc avec bonheur Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, les Goncourt, Huysmans, mais aussi Chateaubriand, Balzac, Nodier, Gautier, Nerval, Verlaine ou Monnier, pour ne citer que quelques noms. L'étude fait alterner des chapitres théoriques denses, qui permettent des mises au …
Czytanie Süskinda
2016
Plots created by Patrick Süskind are transparent and uncomplicated; they follow a conventional path, seemingly aloof from formal modernist experiments, and close with distinctive endings; in popular reception, they give a sense of confidence that even the most fantastic worlds, derived from the corners of imagination, may be set into a familiar and closed whole. Perhaps this simplicity makes it easy to be satisfied by their seductive plot and steer clear off tracks leading to the content encrypted within the deep structure. The author of the present paper attempts to interpret the short stories: {Maître Mussard's Bequest} and {The Story of Mr Sommer} as a metaphorical and grotesque vision o…
Na Ujbackim stepie... Kreacje Tatarów w poematach Tomasza Augusta Olizarowskiego
2016
The article presents literary images of Tatars, which can be found in two poetic novels by the forgotten Romantic author, Tomasz August Olizarowski (1811-1879). The first of them, printed in 1836, is Krzyż w Peredylu. Pieśń wołyńska (The Cross in Peredil. A Volhynian Song), published for the second time in a revised version as Topir-Góra. Powieść wołyńska. Wedle miejscowego podania (Topir-Mountain. A Volhynian Novel. According to a Local Folk Tale). The second one, which in its title already refers to the Tatars, is Car-dziewica. Powieść tatarska (The Virgin-Tsar. A Tatar Novel), written in 1866. In Krzyż w Peredylu and in Topir-Góra, the poet shows Tatar people as representatives of the no…
: Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch
2008
The use of the French adjective “malsain” (usually translated in English as “unhealthy,” “unwholesome” or “sick”) to judge a work of art has led me to question the relevance of this metaphor, the way this value is determined, the reasons which lead the subject to consume shocking material and the possibility to distinguish art from mere symptom. I consider the unhealthy, on the one hand, as a relation of transmission which produces an aesthetic based on metaphor and metonymy, and on the other, as a subjective value delivered by a self or a law, and I argue that, as it is entirely discursive, the unhealthy is in effect an uncanny metonymy. I show that the works under study represent and cond…
Sublime and grotesque : exploring the liminal positioning of clowns between oppositional aesthetic categories
2020
The horror clown is a potential rooted in the liminalities that are an integral part of the clown figure per se. Drawing on anthropological work and the study of popular culture, this paper argues that clowns can be placed between different dualistic frames such as the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the grotesque, and fear and disgust. This positioning and the ways in which clowns operate between these categories are transmitted aesthetically. In this paper the dualistic aesthetics and violent potential of clowns is examined through three different clown examples: the ritual clown, the circus clown and the horror clown. Field observations made by Keisalo of the Chapayeka rituals cl…