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Author : Keith Reader
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-04-19
The Abject Object written by Keith Reader and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Social Science categories.
This book addresses representations and constructions of masculinity in crisis in contemporary French culture by way of two important concepts – the phallus (largely but not solely in (a) Lacanian sense(s)) and abjection (Kristeva). Scrutiny of these concepts informs readings of a number of texts – literary (Bataille, Adamov, Doubrovsky, Houellebecq, Rochefort, Angot) and cinematic (Ferreri, Eustache, Godard, Noé, Bonello) – in which the abject phallus is a significant factor. The texts chosen all describe or stage crises of masculinity and mastery in ways that suggest that these supposedly beneficent qualities – and the phallus that symbolizes them – can often be perceived as burdensome or even detestable. Abjection is a widely-used concept in contemporary cultural studies, but has not hitherto been articulated with the phallus as emblem of male dominance as it is here. The volume will be of interest to those working in the areas of French, gender and film studies.
Powers Of Horror
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Author : Julia Kristeva
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-26
Powers Of Horror written by Julia Kristeva and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-26 with Psychology categories.
In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.
Beauty And The Abject
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Author : Corrado Federici
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Beauty And The Abject written by Corrado Federici and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
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The Abject Of Desire
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Author : Konstanze Kutzbach
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2007
The Abject Of Desire written by Konstanze Kutzbach and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Law categories.
The Abject of Desire approaches the aestheticization of the unaesthetic via a range of different topics and genres in twentieth-century Anglophone literature and culture. The "experience of disgust", which Winfried Menninghaus describes as "an acute crisis of self-preservation", is correlated with conceptualizations of gender in theories of the abject/abjection. In view of this general crisis of identity in the experience of disgust, the contributions to this volume discuss examples of the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in cultural representations and locate conceptual (re)codings of the body, gender, and identity with regard to the abject as an immediate and uncompromising experience on the one hand, and a social and political phenomenon on the other. Considering a variety of cultural narratives by writers as diverse as Samuel Delany, Sarah Schulman, Joyce Carol Oates, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paul Magrs, J. G. Ballard, Stevie Smith, T. C. Boyle, Joseph Conrad, Poppy Z. Brite, and Will Self, by film directors John Waters and Peter Greenaway, playwrights Girish Karnad and Mahesh Dattani, and "body artist" Gunter von Hagens, the contributors to this volume scrutinize different implications of the ambivalent concept of the abject/abjection.
The Abject Of Desire In Shakespeare S Hamlet
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Author : André Valente
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-12
The Abject Of Desire In Shakespeare S Hamlet written by André Valente and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Hauptseminar: Gothic Renaissance, language: English, abstract: Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all ... He knows death to the bone - Man has created death. (W. B. Yeats, "Death") If Yeats is right by saying that man has created death, or rather the idea of death, then it is not surprising that what people thought about death in the past differs from the attitudes we have today and even across different cultures, the feelings concerning death and its representation vary. As Neill states in his study, Renaissance tragic drama is about "the discovery of death and the mapping of its meanings" and he mentions that Hamlet is a play "whose action is obsessively concerned with the exploration of mortality" (1997: 1). According to Zimmerman the play creates an "unsettling atmosphere of existence on the margins, of half-states in which neither life nor death holds sway" (2005: 172). This in-betweenness is also something that Julia Kristeva investigates in her influential study The powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980). She develops the theory of the abject, which is primarily concerned with the state of something that is between subject and object and therefore, arouses a feeling of uncanniness. This paper is concerned with the exploration of these margins and half-states concerning death in Hamlet. The investigation has two main aims. First, it wants to identify occurrences of death in Hamlet, which are marked by ambiguity and uncertainty, i.e. with an abject death according to Julia Kristeva's theory. Second, it tries to answer the questions why a particular appearance of death in the play is abject and whether cultural conventions and the religious development of the Reformation in England at that time influenced the effects and affects evoked with the Elizabethan audience
Abject Visions
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Author : Rina Arya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Abject Visions written by Rina Arya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Abjection in literature categories.
An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.
Amending The Abject Body
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Author : Deborah Caslav Covino
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Amending The Abject Body written by Deborah Caslav Covino and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-improvement lead to their objectification. Amending the Abject Body proposes that although objectification is an important element in this phenomenon, the explosive growth of "makeover culture" can be understood as a process of both abjection (ridding ourselves of the unwanted) and identification (joining the community of what Julia Kristeva calls "clean and proper bodies"). Drawing from the advertisement and advocacy of body makeovers on television, in aesthetic surgery trade books, and in the print and Web-based marketing of face lifts, tummy tucks, and Botox injections, Deborah Caslav Covino articulates the relationship among objectification, abjection, and identification, and offers a fuller understanding of contemporary beauty-desire.
Lines Of Desire
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Author : Hanjo Berressem
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1998
Lines Of Desire written by Hanjo Berressem and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is an original analysis of the novels of Gombrowicz, a fascinating figure of the 20th-century European avante-garde. Berressem examines the novels in light of both contemporary literary theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Classic Readings On Monster Theory
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Author : Asa Simon Mittman
language : en
Publisher: ARC Reference
Release Date : 2020-04-30
Classic Readings On Monster Theory written by Asa Simon Mittman and has been published by ARC Reference this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-30 with Art categories.
Companion volumes Classic Readings on Monster Theoryand Primary Sources on Monstersgather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters can show us about what it means to be human. The first volume introduces important modern theorists of the monstrous and aims to provide interpretive tools and strategies for students to use to grapple with the primary sources in the second volume, which brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West.
Good White People
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Author : Shannon Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Good White People written by Shannon Sullivan and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Social Science categories.
Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism. Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes common among well-meaning white liberals that she sums up as white middle-class goodness, an orientation she critiques for being more concerned with establishing anti-racist bona fides than with confronting systematic racism and privilege. Sullivan untangles the complex relationships between class and race in contemporary white identity and outlines four ways this orientation is expressed, each serving to establish ones lack of racism: the denigration of lower-class white people as responsible for ongoing white racism, the demonization of antebellum slaveholders, an emphasis on colorblindnessespecially in the context of white childrearingand the cultivation of attitudes of white guilt, shame, and betrayal. To move beyond these distancing strategies, Sullivan argues, white people need a new ethos that acknowledges and transforms their whiteness in the pursuit of racial justice rather than seeking a self-righteous distance from it.