Ionesco's Rhinoceros allegorizes how conformism transforms people into mindless beasts (fascism)
Image: Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ionesco's Rhinoceros allegorizes how conformism transforms people into mindless beasts (fascism)
Theatre of the absurd
Ionesco's The Bald Soprano shows everyday speech as meaningless automated noise
Metamorphoses
Ovid's Metamorphoses chronicles over 250 myths of transformation
Othello is about epistemology as much as jealousy
Iago's deceit shapes Othello's beliefs, questioning reality and knowledge
Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought
Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought a new poetic language through extremity
Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' asks
Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' questions if marginalized voices can be heard within dominant discourse
Guernica (Picasso)
Guernica depicts the bombing of Guernica, Spain
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