The article deals with the latest methods of constructing a literary text in American short fiction. There are two main types narrative: theatrical performance and psychological sketch. Theatricality finds expression elements surrealism, magical realism, absurdity. Sometimes it develops into an overt puppet theatre performance. sketch takes form emotional monolog or impression. analyses transfo...

The paper wishes to document a recent trend visible in the Hungarian independent theatre scene – turn towards social, political issues, as well growing sensitivity tensions discourse. It does so through analysis and contextualization of two theatrical productions. Studio K’s 2019 Sacra Hungarica is an in-your-face attempt portray current distortion language abuse used for, while Béla Pintér’s B...

This article examines representations of border security within public museums, through the example UK Border Force National Museum. It begins by discussing way that international borders are theatrically experienced, and parallel characteristics museum spaces. I then suggest value performance autoethnography when analysing such phenomena, which arises from ability to creatively situate persona...

This article, which focuses on selected plays by contemporary Congolese playwrights, has two objectives: the first of is to illustrate how theatre production in DRC times been devoted highlighting various social and political conflicts within society. The paper’s second objective examine aesthetic technical aspects under study, such as use allegory, metaphors, verbal invention, proverbs, enunci...

The paper explores F. M. Dostoevsky’s style from the contemporary semantic-stylistic research perspective. Based on canonical work of Bakhtin Dostoevsky and recent corpus-semantic explorations language, aims to show how microelements at different language levels can be regarded as stylemes build unique style, harmonized with main idea works. focuses stylistic effects intensifiers their unusual ...

Abstract In this article, we propose the category of “foreign policy performance” in order to argue that a recognition foreign policy's theatricality can illuminate its contribution generative processes social construction and world-making. We focus on practice summit diplomacy, which operates according “theatrical rationality” blurs boundary between substantive symbolic politics. Noting Donald...

Abstract In Our Aesthetic Categories (2012), Sianne Ngai defines ‘cute’ as an aesthetic ‘preoccupation with small, easy to handle things . that celebrates the diminutive and vulnerable’. Although identifies cute a predominantly twentieth-century phenomenon, one which is inextricably bound up mass-market commodification, even eroticization fetishization of object or person, it difficult imagine ...