Grotesque in Dickens

Grotesque Impressions Enhance the Gaze Cueing Effect

A non-predictive gaze cue produces a reflexive shift of attention to the gazed-at location. The present study used a modified version of Posner's attentional cueing paradigm (a gaze cueing paradigm) to investigate role of grotesque facial expressions on a gaze cueing effect involving induced fear. Grotesque faces were created by vertically shifting the position of one of the two eyes (Experimen...

Reading the Grotesque Graphic Art in Nicole Eisenman's "Triumph of Poverty" Based on the Views of Mikhail Bakhtin

Nicole Eisenman, a contemporary figurative painter belongs to a generation of masters of the art who have equally adapted their sources from Renaissance newspaper caricatures and paintings, seeking to efface the borders between fine art and popular culture. “Triumph of Poverty”, one of Nicole Eisenman's greatest nipping artworks, is a contemporary conception of a work of art of the same name by...

An Investigation into the Use of Category Shifts in the Persian Translation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

The present study aimed at finding Catford‟s category shifts applied in the Persian translation of Charles Dickens‟ novel Great Expectations to determine the most frequently used category shift and to check whether there is a significant difference between category shifts in the translation. To this end, 200 simple declarative sentences from the first 20 chapters...

Morality and Literature (Charles Dickens and his English Contemporaries)

A Study of the Characteristics of the “Grotesque Body” in Four Contemporary Iranian Painters

Contemporary Iranian art, being affected by social context and events, and also sociological issues, has a critical approach. One of the formats that contemporary art uses to represent body and its pain is grotesque. Grotesque is a concept diversified over time which includes new definitions in contemporary art and contrasts with common principles of representation. The question is that why the...