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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On the matter of abjection / Hanjo Berressem
- Queer transformations: renegotiating the abject in contemporary Anglo-American lesbian fiction / Paulina Palmer
- The Bhibhitsa Rasa in Anglophone Indian cultural discourse: the repugnant and distasteful at the level of gender, race and caste / Nilufer Bharucha
- The Gothic-grotesque of Haunted: Joyce Carol Oates's tales of abjection / Susana Araújo
- "Now we know that gay men are just men after all": abject sexualities in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
- Consuming the body: literal and metaphorical cannibalism in Peter Greenaway's films / Tatjana Pavlov
- Shape-shifters from the wilderness: werewolves roaming the twentieth century / Andrea Gutenberg
- The two- ..., one- ..., none-sex model: the flesh(
- )made machine in Herman Melville's "The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids" and J.G. Ballard's Crash / Konstanze Kutzbach
- Fear, melancholy and loss in the poetry of Stevie Smith / Ruth Baumert
- American environmentalism and encounters with the abject: T. Coraghessan Boyle's A friend of the earth / Sylvia Mayer
- Abject cannibalism: anthropophagic poetics in Conrad, White and Tennant
- towards a critique of Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection / Russell West
- "A wet festival of scarlet": Poppy Z. Brite's (un)aesthetics of murder / Monika Mueller
- Interior landscapes: anatlomy art and the work of Gunther von Hagens / Alison Goeller
- Violence, transgression and the fun factor: the imagined atrocities of Will Self's My idea of fun / Frank Lay.