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...

Visual humor is one of the important tools used by designers and artists. Art historians thinkers have mostly analyzed, commented on, researched in literary fields, such as stories novels. However, context relationships absurd art design, analyses research on their differences similarities been limited. The aim this to analyze how why humor, which has characteristics fields derive findings resu...

Subversive Anachronisms in Art History– The Case of Magical “Socialist” Realist Painting –
 By using the term „subversive anachronism” I mean to invoke Georges Didi-Huberman’s concept „sovereign anachronism”, which is itself product a montage theories. Following Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg, Didi-Huberman constructs phenomenon intellectual historical sense, frees anachronism from its ne...

On 12 February 2020, while on an international tour promoting Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, translator of book, Omid Tofighian, participated in a seminar at Utrecht University, organised by Australian academic, Anna Poletti (associate professor English language and culture, University). is also co-editor journal Biography: interdisciplinary quarterly...

Device Art is a concept for re-examining art-sciencetechnology relationships both from a contemporary and historical perspective in order to foreground a new aspect of media art. The term "Device Art" may sound obscure, or even self-contradictory, but it is a conscious choice. The concept is a logical extension of a change in the notion of art that already started in the early 20th century with...

This paper examines an unpublished manuscript for a novel, Montel, written by editor Gladys Fornell in the mid-twentieth century. In my paper, I examine Fornell’s professional work and literary connections to surmise what influenced her lack of success publishing the novel. Specifically, I highlight Montel as a transitional novel that accentuates the differences between modern and postmodern li...

The Dada movement was a multimedia avant-garde art practice that began in Zurich during World War I and flourished in Berlin, Paris, and New York from 1916 until 1920. Beginning as a disgusted response to the war and the blithely nationalistc bourgeois attitudes the Dada felt were at the root of the conflict, the Dada developed and refined the notion of "anti-art" as an expression of dissatisfa...

Edited by Richard Perez and Victoria A. Chevalier. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (Switzerland), 2020. xxi + 650 pp. Magical realism has a chequered history with beginnings in Europe. Magischer Realismus or “magic realism” was coined German art critic, Franz Roh, 1923 to describe certain metaphysical elements that he saw paintings. However, the term did not gain currency—Neue Sachlichkeit (New Object...