“True fiction” – the memory and the postmemory of traumatic war events in a picturebook by Magdalena Howorus-Czajka

“…I analyse the artistic styles adapted by the artists to express difficult topics, such as the holocaust, the horror of concentrations camps, hunger, fear, loss of family, death. …”
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L’horreur acoustique musiques « anempathiques » dans le théâtre de Martin Crimp by Aloysia Rousseau

“…Music is not illustrative but arouses on the contrary an “anempathetic” effect, an expression coined by Michel Chion in his book La Musique au cinéma. …”
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Monstruos, prodigios y maravillas en los viajes de Pero Tafur by Pablo Castro Hernández

“…They are an anomaly that escapes from traditional forms, expressing excessive, huge and grotesque characteristics. …”
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Le continent noir du désir masculin : Colet et Flaubert, encore by Barbara Vinken

“…The slippers, a most classic fetish, by a metonymic displacement take the place of the maternal phallus, whose absence is discovered with horror. This lack makes the boy realize the possibility of castration. …”
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The Semantics of the Absurd: On German ‘Hermetic’ Poetry and Political Commitment after 1945 by Marko Pajević

“…But it was particularly in lyric poetry that a lucid and politically aware examination of the recent past took place and an expression of such considerations could be found. …”
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