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This paper explores the ritual function of horror movie villains from multiple perspectives within ritual studies, with particular emphasis on the functionalist branch and Roy Rappaport’s definition that ritual is “the per- formance of... more
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      RitualEmile DurkheimHorror MoviesTransgression
Situated in the heart of Paris, France, Père-Lachaise is a magnificent monumental cemetery with more than two centuries of history. Every year 2.5 million people visit Père-Lachaise as if it was a big open air museum; every day hundreds... more
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      Art HistoryDeath StudiesUrban AnthropologyReligious Studies
"Salò", or 120 minutes of "a fossil". On transgression and its negation in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film The article is an attempt to analyse the problem of transgression in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò, or the 120 days of Sodom”. The... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesFilm StudiesFilm Analysis
Recreational trespass or 'urban exploration' (UE) is the practice of researching, gaining access to and documenting forbidden, forgotten or otherwise off-limits places, including abandoned buildings , construction sites and infrastructure... more
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      CriminologySociology Of DevianceAutoethnographyCritical Criminology
Defiance, independence and transgression for sale. On social rituals of creating and receiving the "difficult" art. According to Marshall McLuhan: "Art is anything you can get away with". To what extent is this statement correct... more
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      Contemporary ArtSociology of ArtsBritish artStreet Art
Résumé : Le Caprice est une forme artistique qui, depuis son essor au cours du XVIème siècle, n’a cessé de ressurgir dans l’art de façon endémique et inopinée. Transcendant les siècles et dépassant les cloisonnements génériques, le... more
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      Spanish LiteratureSpanish ArtTransgressionCaprichos
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      DeathDeath StudiesMaurice BlanchotLimit Experience
The works of Marguerite Duras show visible hybridity, broadly understood as a mixture of genres, correspondence of the arts, or intertextuality. Her texts reflect, par excellence, this tendency because they keep departing from classical... more
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      HybridityHybridizationMarguerite DurasTransgression Studies
A köztesség, a hibriditás, a heterogenitás Tolnai Ottó művészetének meghatározó kategóriái. A köztesség otthonossága a kezdetektől jellemző a szerző műveire műfaji és tematikus szinten egyaránt. Jelen tanulmány célja a köztes terek,... more
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      Hungarian LiteratureTransgressionCultural HibridityModern and Contemporary Hungarian Literature
“To be born again,’ sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, ‘first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won’t cry? How to... more
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      IndividualismIdentificationTransgression
Abstract Background Finland was an agricultural country until the 1960s. Thereafter, Finland modernized rapidly. Studies have postulated that as Finland becomes modernized, intoxication-oriented drinking would gradually decrease.... more
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      Mixed MethodsRitualAlcohol StudiesQualitative Research
It seems that every culture shares a figure who "tricks" and transgresses rules even if at the same time he is a "Cultural Hero". Based on a classification of some basic characteristics common to all "tricksters", and despite the fact... more
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      Medieval LiteraturePolymorphismFabliauxRobin Hood
Cet article propose une réflexion sur le totem et tabou qui sont considérés comme sources du mal dans l'Etange destin de Wangrin. Après avoir montré les différentes manifestations du tabou dans le roman, l'article propose une typologie de... more
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      TransgressionViolationTabouDestin
RESUMO Este artigo tem como objetivo principal analisar e refletir sobre algumas características da lírica contemporânea, praticadas em Portugal e no Brasil. A partir de definições teóricas de pensadores como Giorgio Agamben e Octávio... more
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      Portuguese and Brazilian LiteraturePostmodern LiteratureModernismoTransgression
Serial Adventure Time (2010) osiągnął już miano kultowego, a podobnym tropem podążają dwie inne propozycje stacji Cartoon Network: Steven Universe (2014) oraz Over the Garden Wall. Seriale te można uznać za transgresywne na wielu... more
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      Cultural StudiesSocial SciencesAnimationAnimation Theory
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      Queer TheoryMichel FoucaultGeorges BatailleTransgression
As a pre-study to "Foucault, Archaeology, Transgression" (and take-home exam) this paper explores the notion of Heterotopia in Foucault's oevre. It analyses its function in the beginning of The Order of Things as well as a conceptual... more
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      HeterotopiaPost-MarxismMichel FoucaultTransgression
Labelled as ‘new extreme’, 'Ett hål i mitt hjärta' ('A Hole in My Heart') (Moodysson, 2004) controversially straddles the boundaries of art and pornography, challenging the supposed eroticism of pornography with disgusting re-enactments... more
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      ViolenceGenreJacques DerridaSwedish Cinema
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      SociologyAlcohol StudiesLife StyleNarrative Methods
This chapter makes a close reading of a short vignette in Eyrbyggja saga - the attempted forced marriage between the Swedish berserk Halli and Víga-Styrr's daughter Ásdis - exploring the ways that various norms and normative expectations... more
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      Old Norse LiteratureSocio-legal studiesMedieval ScandinaviaViking Studies
Peatlands constitute central habitats for the occurrence of wetland archaeological sites. Consisting of waterlogged organic soils, they also provide advantageous conditions for the preservation of organic materials. The economic... more
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      Mesolithic ArchaeologyArchaeological surveyLakesTransgression
In the light of these developments, it can be useful to go back to the understanding, meaning, and analytical function of taboos. In this introduction, we will give a short summary of how to tackle the concept of ‘taboo‘ in an analytical... more
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      Cultural StudiesAnthropologyPostcolonial StudiesCivic Education
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      CinemaCinema of TransgressionHollywoodCinema Studies
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      PsychologyJuvenile DelinquencyTransgressionActing Out
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      Space and PlaceGeocriticismPhenomenology of TransgressionHispanic Studies
Folgender Beitrag ist das Resultat einer Auseinandersetzung mit sozio-sowie religionssoziologischen Revolutionstheorien. Als Grundlage meiner Ausarbeitungen dienten mir (1) Jack A. Goldstone, Toward a fourth generation of revolutionary... more
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      Emile DurkheimMarcel MaussTransgressionTheory of revolution
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      Evolutionary BiologyGeologyEcologyBiostratigraphy
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      GeochemistryMineralogyDensityDepositional Environment
Grivina V. Transgression versus counterculture in American novel between 1960-1990s (W.S. Burroughs, Ch. Palahniuk). This article studies the origins of two terms, ‘counterculture’ and ‘transgressive literature’ based on the avant-garde... more
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      American LiteratureCountercultureWilliam S. BurroughsChuck Palahniuk
Article de dictionnaire
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      Sociology of Crime and DeviancePolitical Extremism/Radicalism/PopulismSociologieRadicalisation
A number of high-profile corporate scandals were reported in Japan in 2011, and the accounting scandal of the Olympus Company was among them. During 2011, suspicions surfaced that Olympus had been engaging in improper accounting practices... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesMedia SociologyJapanese Studies
Appeared in : Filosofie, jrg. 24, nr. 6, 2014, pp. 30-34.
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      AnthropologyPhilosophyArt TheoryDeath Studies
In this paper I would like to point out the role of japanese media while investigating, uncovering and mediating (not only political) scandals. I will mention, how scandal mediations in Japan reflect the japanese mediascape, journalistic... more
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      Critical TheoryMedia SociologyJapanese StudiesMedia Studies
David Bowie has long confounded us with enigmatic acts of gender transgression, with gestures and personas drawn from Hollywood stars, literature and avant-garde art. That flame still burns brightly. This is an open access article, and... more
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      Cultural StudiesMusicMedia StudiesPerformance Studies
In 1970, Michelangelo Antonioni took the viewers of Zabriskie Point into the Californian desert, where he—with sympathy—explored the much-observed avant-garde correlation between transgression and emancipation. Thirty-three years later,... more
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      20th century Avant-GardeTransgressionBruno DumontContemporary European Cinema
Mit Blick auf die Online-Kulturkriege der Neuen Rechten und sogenannte Alt-Right Nerdkulturen (meme wars, LOLitics, Manosphere, Pranksters) zeigt sich eine Verschmelzung von reaktionärer Politik, transgressiver Ästhetik und... more
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      Aesthetics and PoliticsNew RightTransgressionNerd Culture
This chapter begins with the question: Is remix a monster, and digital humanities the means through which it is destined to bring down the old-fashioned, exclusionary, and hierarchical modes of humanities past? Using the metaphor of... more
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      Digital HumanitiesColonialismMonster TheoryFrankenstein
This series examines the nature, function, and context of the outlaw and the outlawed—people, spaces, practices—from the premodern to the contemporary. Its scope also includes the forces of law which seek to define and contain such... more
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      Transgression StudiesMedieval OutlawsTransgressionOutlaws
This paper investigates the relationship between self-esteem, body-image and sexual desire within gay men. It looks at the gay male body as a site of ‘performativity’, the body ‘citationality’ quoting the ‘norms’ of gay society in order... more
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      Sexual BehaviourHIV/AIDSPerformativityResistance (Social)
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      Mexican StudiesEroticismGeorges BatailleThriller
Anna Livia Plurabelle in Polish The title of Fritz Senn’s contribution to Joycean studies ALP Deutsch: „ob überhaupt möglich? " raises a question about Anna Livia Plurabelle in Polish. Very little attention was devoted to Polish... more
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      English LiteratureTranslation StudiesJames JoyceEnglish
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      MarketingPsychologyCognitive SciencePersonality
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      Contemporary ArtPrintmakingGuerrilla PrintmakingTransgression
Transgressive fiction or victory of norms? Virginie Despentes' first novel /Baise-moi/ has been presented as both, marked by transgression (Jordan 2002 : 121) and by profound conservatism (Fayard 2006 : 68). The present article proposes... more
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      TransgressionVirginie DespentesFemale FriendshipAmitié
The focus of action in the East Anglian Croxton Play of the Sacrament is a consecrated communion wafer, the host. Aristorius, a Christian merchant, steals a consecrated host from a church. He sells it to a group of Jewish merchants (who... more
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      Medieval English LiteratureTransubstantiationMedieval DramaThe Other
Houses feature prominently in Helen Oyeyemi's novels, The Opposite House and White Is for Witching. I describe the connection between the Greco-Roman Underworld and the Yorùbá Otherworld in Oyeyemi's texts as a " liminal intersection " ,... more
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      Mythology And FolklorePostcolonial FeminismTransgressionPostcolonial Gothic
A review of "Last Exit to Brooklyn" published in the 5th (2015) volume of Localities, published by the Korean Studies Institute.
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      American LiteratureMichel FoucaultCritical Geography20th Century American Literature
The lecture aims to illustrate that the most groundbreaking artworks—from painting to film and comics—have triggered an upsurge in appropriation. Vice versa it may be claimed that novel artworks are created only through enduring... more
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      Visual StudiesComics StudiesStanley KubrickColor