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The abject of desire : the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture /
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",...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Genus--gender in modern culture ;
9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (309 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781435604926 143560492X 9042022647 9789042022645 9786612265587 6612265582 9401204896 9789401204897 |