Geschichte im Roman / Roman in der Geschichte by Klaus-Detlef Müller

“…Based on narratological means and their fictional self–reflection, this new type is suitable to generate a ‘plausible’ explanation for the events whose absurdity it exposes.…”
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A impossibilidade de se dizer o indizível: reflexões sobre o duplo na novela “O unicórnio”, de Hilda Hilst by Willian André

“…Echoing Gregor Samsa’s uncanny experience, the novella’s narrator suddenly becomes an awkward, absurd creature. A double of the narrator, this new “I” she becomes makes explicit the devious relation, built throughout the text, between a deep necessity of comprehending the world and a world that is closed in its silence, denying to be comprehended. …”
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Aspecte ale „înregimentării asumate” de scriitori în presa comunistă din perioada 1949–1965 by Doina Matei Marcu

“…The directives of the one party hierarchy appear in the lines of characters, but also in the words used by criticism, in which textual analysis becomes absurd. Censorship is a safety net for the authorities. …”
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THE CONFLUENCE OF SCIENCE AND ARTISTIC INSPIRATION IN GYÖRGY LIGETI’S MUSICAL THINKING by Attila FODOR

“…He manifested during his an opened attitude towards (almost all kind of) music, though his output is basically dominated by several – extremely personal – dichotomies, which ultimately demonstrate a fundamental duality of his personality: science-art, craft-intuition, calculus-emotion, presence-distance, mechanic-kaleidoscopic, grotesque-absurd, manipulation-ecstasy. Our study tries to find out the roots of these dichotomies, mainly through his writings and memories. …”
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Maurice Renard et la science en récit au temps du Docteur Lerne et du Péril bleu by Sandrine Schiano

“…The traumatic impact of the sciences of the nature putting a starting point in the human story or the extrapolations inherent to the development of the astronomy, increasing the dimensions of the universe up to the absurd, developed a climate of ideas with pessimistic consonances and crepuscular values. …”
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Explanation of Mystical Hermeneutics in Ja'far al-Sadiq's Exegesis Based on Paul Ricoeur's Opinions by Reza Tabatabaee Amid, Ghodratollah Khayatian, Azim Hamzeian

“…Ricoeur believes that all interpretations are rightful, but in Islamic mysticism, absurd interpretation of verses is not acceptable.…”
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The Hybridity of Popular Culture in The Winter’s Tale by François Laroque

“…The sting of jealousy encourages the Sicilian king to resort to popular phrases and folk traditions, so that the “fabric of his folly” (1.2.424) comes close to the wild absurdities of Autolycus’ ballads. Popular and elite cultures thus appear to be combined and to echo each other in the two apparently antithetical halves of the play.…”
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L’Opéra en version anglaise : un enjeu esthétique ou sociologique ? by Pierre Degott

“…Far from defending the – now absurd – idea of the superiority of English over original versions, this paper shows that English versions of the main repertory were sometimes far ahead of their Italian counterparts at least in terms of artistry and musical authenticity. …”
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Banana Populism: Exploring the Emotionally Engaging, Authentic, and Memeable Rhetoric of Populist Visual Communication by Zea Szebeni, Ilana Hartikainen, Sophie Schmalenberger, Michael Cole

“…Banana populism utilizes the ordinary—exemplified by the banana—for its ubiquity, inherent humor, and absurdity, transforming these elements into powerful political tools. …”
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Assessing the mask-wearing habit as a contributing factor for COVID-19–associated mucormycosis by Bhawna Saini, Ambika Gupta, Suman Bisla, Komal Kumia, Shubhangi Shukla, Kime Yama

“…Context: During the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an absurd surge in cases of mucormycosis. COVID-19–associated mucormycosis (CAM) was found to be associated with the presence of diabetes, use of systemic steroids, prolonged use of masks, and others. …”
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Postmodernismâs symptom in the Foroughâs language and intelligence by محمد خسروی شکیب, مریم یاراحمدی

“…Intertxtualiy, blank writing, Paranovia, absurdity, irony, uncertainty and inconsistency are famous sign which could be mapped out in her poetry. …”
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Flann O’Brien’s Anti-Manifestos by Julian HANNA

“…His work is often loosely labelled “surreal” or “absurd.” Yet O’Brien’s work is rarely read as avant-garde per se. …”
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Sacrul și profanul în modernitatea occidentală. Ocultism, vrăjitorie și mode culturale by Dragoș DRAGOMAN

“…The joint collapse of the religious faith and of the supreme monarch left the room for a desecrated, hostile and absurd universe, with no sense for living. That is why new tendencies gained ground especially among young Westerners. …”
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Иллюзия иностранной речи в структуре текстов Михаила Зощенко by Jarosław Wierzbiński

“…Their dialogue consists of collocations carried to absurdity, for example: ‘...их бин ейне шамбер-циммер Испания. …”
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Reading “Guillelme l’Amïable”: Hypertextuality and La Prise d’Orange by Lucas Wood

“…The Prise cultivates a somewhat anxious enjoyment of its subversion of epic norms by thematizing the “folly” of its protagonist, Guillelme, whose absurd impersonation of a courtly lover casts doubt upon his legitimacy as an epic hero and the Prise’s “authenticity” as a chanson de geste. …”
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Exploring the Definition of Non-Monotonicity – Logical and Psychological Considerations by Piotr Łukowski, Konrad Rudnicki

“…Of the two strategies, the second one seems downright absurd, since changing the rules of a given logic is a mere replacement of that logic with the rules of another. …”
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“I, too, Have Long Digressed” by Michael Sollars

“…Dans cet essai à la première personne, la voix narrative est similaire à celle de Swift, et le narrateur, excentrique directeur de dictionnaires, pousse son plan rationnel jusqu’au l’absurde. Cet essai est fidèle au texte polémique de Swift sur la forme, et il emprunte plusieurs approches utilisées par l’auteur pour satiriser l’idée selon laquelle manger les enfants est une solution au problème de la pauvreté pour les familles irlandaises.…”
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Global Bifurcation Structure of a Predator-Prey System with a Spatial Degeneracy and B-D Functional Response by Xiaozhou Feng, Changtong Li, Hao Sun, Yuzhen Wang

“…Second, for the case of the strong growth rate on the prey (a>λ1Ω0), a priori estimates on any positive steady-state solutions are obtained by applying reduction to absurdity and the set of positive steady-state solutions forms an unbounded global bifurcation curve by the global bifurcation theory. …”
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Discours et parcours d’enseignants renonçant au bénéfice du concours en début de carrière by Richard Étienne, Céline Avenel

“…The analysis reveals a first obstacle stemming from the administrative rigidity of the system, a second created by assignments imposed by the management of absences, a third residing in the paradox of a training more focused on didactic knowledge than on pedagogical competence, a fourth determined by an absurd inversion between practice and training, a fifth confirming the weakness of guidance education and the absence of work on a professional project and a sixth on the reception in the profession left to chance placements. …”
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Corps sensible, environnement urbain moderniste by Françoise Michel-Jones

“…Then the dwindling of the “me, of the subject, of the person” (Mauss) is manifested in the opacity and absurdity of the loss of meaning and negation of history that accompany the presumed “functional” requirement of the serial and the undifferentiated.…”
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