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AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, Vol. 4 

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​The Comic-Grotesque in Poetic Performance: 
Dan Butterworth's drunken man on a bicycle in conversation with poetry by Yeats, Eliot, Auden, & others.

 Join us (online) on Sunday, May 16 for a discussion of Dan Butterworth's "drunken man on a bicycle" in the context of poetry by Auden, Yeats, Eliot, Baudelaire, Plath, and Poe.

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AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought
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otherworld realism
[uhth -er-wurld] [ree-uh-liz-uh m]
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noun

1. a style of literature devoted to intellectual and imaginative pursuits that point towards a potential, evolved reality.
2. a genre that represents the known, often mundane world in an elevated or defamiliarising way through the use of linguistic craft, innovative language, or experimental structure; contrast with magical realism, which integrates choice plot elements into a conventionally accepted reality.
3. art and literature that evokes the space before clarity in which one must navigate the logic of intuition and instinct, alongside the duplicity of fact.
4. an approach illuminating a psychic space of process; a space of ambiguity, silence, and internal struggle.
5. the pre-dawn.

Word Origin
2017; coined by Lazuli Literary Group; first appearing in AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, Volume One. ​

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