The Abject Object

The Abject Object Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Abject Object book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

The Abject Object

Keith Reader
The Abject Object Book PDF

Author : Keith Reader
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401201735

Get Book

The Abject Object by Keith Reader Pdf

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

Julia Kristeva
Powers of Horror Book PDF

Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780231561419

Get Book

Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva Pdf

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

Corrado Federici,Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Ernesto Virgulti
Beauty and the Abject Book PDF

Author : Corrado Federici,Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Ernesto Virgulti
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820488100

Get Book

Beauty and the Abject by Corrado Federici,Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Ernesto Virgulti Pdf

Original Scholarly Monograph

The Abject of Desire

Konstanze Kutzbach,Monika Mueller
The Abject of Desire Book PDF

Author : Konstanze Kutzbach,Monika Mueller
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789042022645

Get Book

The Abject of Desire by Konstanze Kutzbach,Monika Mueller Pdf

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

André Valente
The Abject of Desire in Shakespeare s Hamlet Book PDF

Author : André Valente
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640731275

Get Book

The Abject of Desire in Shakespeare's Hamlet by André Valente Pdf

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

Amending the Abject Body

Deborah Caslav Covino
Amending the Abject Body Book PDF

Author : Deborah Caslav Covino
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791484333

Get Book

Amending the Abject Body by Deborah Caslav Covino Pdf

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.

Abject Visions

Rina Arya,Nicholas Chare
Abject Visions Book PDF

Author : Rina Arya,Nicholas Chare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Abjection in literature
ISBN : 0719096286

Get Book

Abject Visions by Rina Arya,Nicholas Chare Pdf

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.

Lines of Desire

Hanjo Berressem
Lines of Desire Book PDF

Author : Hanjo Berressem
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810113090

Get Book

Lines of Desire by Hanjo Berressem Pdf

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.

Thinking the US South

Shannon Sullivan
Thinking the US South Book PDF

Author : Shannon Sullivan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810143326

Get Book

Thinking the US South by Shannon Sullivan Pdf

Knowledge emerges from contexts, which are shaped by people’s experiences. The varied essays in Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives demonstrate that Southern identities, borders, and practices play an important but unacknowledged role in ethical, political, emotional, and global issues connected to knowledge production. Not merely one geographical region among others, the US South is sometimes a fantasy and other times a nightmare, but it is always a prominent component of the American national imaginary. In connection with the Global North and Global South, the US South provides a valuable perspective from which to explore race, class, gender, and other inter- and intra-American differences. The result is a fresh look at how identity is constituted; the role of place, ancestors, and belonging in identity formation; the impact of regional differences on what counts as political resistance; the ways that affect and emotional labor circulate; practices of boundary policing, deportation, and mourning; issues of disability and slowness; racial and other forms of suffering; and above all, the question of whether and how doing philosophy changes when done from Southern standpoints. Examining racist tropes, Indigenous land claims, Black Southern philosophical perspectives, migrant labor, and more, this incisive anthology makes clear that roots matter.

Good White People

Shannon Sullivan
Good White People Book PDF

Author : Shannon Sullivan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438451688

Get Book

Good White People by Shannon Sullivan Pdf

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 one’s lack of racism: the denigration of lower-class white people as responsible for ongoing white racism, the demonization of antebellum slaveholders, an emphasis on colorblindness—especially in the context of white childrearing—and 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.

Empire Islands

Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Empire Islands Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816648638

Get Book

Empire Islands by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Pdf

Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre’s appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of—and perhaps feel better about—imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect enabled the expansion and maintenance of European empire. Empire Islands asks why so many colonial authors chose islands as the setting for their stories of imperial adventure and why so many postcolonial writers “write back” to those island castaway narratives. Drawing on insightful readings of works from Thomas More’s Utopia to Caribbean novels like George Lamming’s Water with Berries, from canonical works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Tempest to the lesser-known A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel by Ralph Morris, Weaver-Hightower examines themes of cannibalism, piracy, monstrosity, imperial aggression, and the concept of going native. Ending with analysis of contemporary film and the role of the United States in global neoimperialism, Weaver-Hightower exposes how island narratives continue not only to describe but to justify colonialism. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is assistant professor of English and postcolonial studies at the University of North Dakota.

Classic Readings on Monster Theory

Asa Simon Mittman,Marcus Hensel
Classic Readings on Monster Theory Book PDF

Author : Asa Simon Mittman,Marcus Hensel
Publisher : ARC Reference
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 164189427X

Get Book

Classic Readings on Monster Theory by Asa Simon Mittman,Marcus Hensel Pdf

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.

Kristeva

S. K. Keltner
Kristeva Book PDF

Author : S. K. Keltner
Publisher : Polity
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745638973

Get Book

Kristeva by S. K. Keltner Pdf

S. K. Keltner's book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the breadth of Kristeva's work. In an original and insightful analysis, Keltner presents Kristeva's thought as the coherent development and elaboration of a complex, multidimensional threshold constitutive of meaning and subjectivity. The "threshold" indicates Kristeva's primary sphere of concern -- the relationship between the speaking being and its particular social and historical conditions -- and Kristeva's interdisciplinary approach. Kristeva's vision. Keltner argues, opens a unique perspective within contemporary discourses attentive to issues of meaning, subjectivity, and social and political life. By emphasizing Kristeva's attention to the permeable borders of psychic and social life, Keltner offers innovative readings of the concepts most widely discussed in Kristeva scholarship: the semiotic and symbolic, abjection, love, and loss. She also provides new interpretations of some of the most.

A Violent Embrace

renée c. hoogland
A Violent Embrace Book PDF

Author : renée c. hoogland
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611684926

Get Book

A Violent Embrace by renée c. hoogland Pdf

Instead of asking questions about the symbolic meaning or underlying "truth" of a work of art, renée c. hoogland is concerned with the actual "work" that it does in the world (whether intentionally or not). Why do we find ourselves in tears in front of an abstract painting? Why do some cartoons of the prophet Muhammad generate worldwide political outrage? What, in other words, is the compelling force of visual images, even—or especially—if they are nonfigurative, repulsive, or downright "ugly"? Rather than describing, analyzing, and interpreting artworks, hoogland approaches art as an event that obtains on the level of actualization, presenting "retellings" of specific artistic events in the light of recent interventions in aesthetic theory, and proposing to conceive of the aesthetic encounter as a potentially disruptive, if not violent, force field with material, political, and practical consequences.

Altered Pasts

Richard J. Evans
Altered Pasts Book PDF

Author : Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611685398

Get Book

Altered Pasts by Richard J. Evans Pdf

A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940 instead of Churchill: seemingly minor twists of fate on which world-shaking events might have hinged. Alternative history has long been the stuff of parlor games, war-gaming, and science fiction, but over the past few decades it has become a popular stomping ground for serious historians. The historian Richard J. Evans now turns a critical, slightly jaundiced eye on a subject typically the purview of armchair historians. The book's main concern is examining the intellectual fallout from historical counterfactuals, which the author defines as "alternative versions of the past in which one alteration in the timeline leads to a different outcome from the one we know actually occurred." What if Britain had stood at the sidelines during the First World War? What if the Wehrmacht had taken Moscow? The author offers an engaging and insightful introduction to the genre, while discussing the reasons for its revival in popularity, the role of historical determinism, and the often hidden agendas of the counterfactual historian. Most important, Evans takes counterfactual history seriously, looking at the insights, pitfalls, and intellectual implications of changing one thread in the weave of history. A wonderful critical introduction to an often-overlooked genre for scholars and casual readers of history alike.