The Abject Of Desire

Author : Konstanze Kutzbach,Monika Mueller
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789042022645

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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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789401204897

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The Abject of Desire by Anonim 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.

Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780231561419

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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.

Author : André Valente
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783640731312

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"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. “Shakespeare’s plays are works that live as much in their written/printed as in their performative re-productions and that [...] are therefore most fruitfully examined in both forms side by side” (Aebischer 2004: 13). Taking this assumption as a preliminary, the analysis in this paper focuses on the text of the play, as well as on practical questions concerning performance and stage conventions in the Elizabethan time.

Author : Jack Ben-Levi,Leslie C. Jones,Simon Taylor,Craig Houser,Whitney Museum of American Art
Publisher : Whitney Museum of American Art
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032621438

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Abject Art by Jack Ben-Levi,Leslie C. Jones,Simon Taylor,Craig Houser,Whitney Museum of American Art Pdf

Author : André Valente
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640731275

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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

Author : Keith Reader
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401201735

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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.

Author : Asa Simon Mittman,Marcus Hensel
Publisher : ARC Reference
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 164189427X

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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.

Author : Karin Beeler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786423897

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Tattoos, Desire and Violence by Karin Beeler Pdf

Whether they graphically depict an individual's or a community's beliefs, express the defiance of authority, or brand marginalized groups, tattoos are a means of interpersonal communication that dates back thousands of years. Evidence of the tattoo's place in today's popular culture is all around--in advertisements, on the stereotypical outlaw character in films and television, in supermarket machines that dispense children's wash-away tattoos, and even in the production of a tattooed Barbie doll. This book explores the tattoo's role, primarily as an emblem of resistance and marginality, in recent literature, film, and television. The association of tattoos with victims of the Holocaust, slaves, and colonized peoples; with gangs, inmates, and other marginalized groups; and the connection of the tattoo narrative to desire and violence are discussed at length.

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

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

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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

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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.

Author : Ramsey Campbell,David Constantine,Margaret Drabble,Saleem Haddad,Mark Haddon,Matthew Holness,Adam Marek,Lucie McKnight Hardy,Mike Nelson,Paul Theroux,Lara Williams,Gerard Woodward,Sarah Schofield,Christine Poulson,Meave Haughey,Gaia Holmes,Karen Featherstone,Alan Beard,Bernardine Bishop
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912697458

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The New Abject by Ramsey Campbell,David Constantine,Margaret Drabble,Saleem Haddad,Mark Haddon,Matthew Holness,Adam Marek,Lucie McKnight Hardy,Mike Nelson,Paul Theroux,Lara Williams,Gerard Woodward,Sarah Schofield,Christine Poulson,Meave Haughey,Gaia Holmes,Karen Featherstone,Alan Beard,Bernardine Bishop Pdf

SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject. Following the success of Comma’s award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject – Julia Kristeva’s theory of the psychoanalytic, intimate abject, and Georges Bataille’s societal equivalent – with visceral stories of modern unease. As we become ever-more isolated by social media bubbles, or the demands for social distancing, our moral gag-reflex is increasingly sensitised, and our ability to tolerate difference, or ‘the other’, atrophies. Like all good horror writing, these stories remind us that exposure to what unsettles us, even in small doses, is always better than pretending it doesn’t exist. After all, we can never be wholly free of that which belongs to us.

Author : Darieck Scott
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814740941

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Extravagant Abjection by Darieck Scott Pdf

Summary: Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.

Author : Carlos Rojas,Ralph A. Litzinger
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822374022

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Ghost Protocol by Carlos Rojas,Ralph A. Litzinger Pdf

Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate economic strategies, but from the effects of discrete practices the contributors call protocols, which stem from an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices. Analyzing the process of urbanization and the ways marginalized communities and migrant workers are positioned in relation to the transforming social landscape, the contributors show how these protocols constitute the Chinese national imaginary while opening spaces for new emancipatory possibilities. Offering a nuanced theory of contemporary China's hybrid political economy, Ghost Protocol situates China's development at the juncture between the world as experienced and the world as imagined. Contributors. Yomi Braester, Alexander Des Forges, Kabzung, Rachel Leng, Ralph A. Litzinger, Lisa Rofel, Carlos Rojas, Bryan Tilt, Robin Visser, Biao Xiang, Emily T. Yeh

Author : David Cotter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136711497

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Joyce and the Perverse Ideal by David Cotter Pdf

Representations of masochism - both overt and oblique - permeate the work of James Joyce. While a number of critics have noted this, to date there has been no sustained and focused analysis of this trope in his writings. David Cotter argues that such an examination is key to understanding the meanings and messages of Joyce's work. Adding further dimensions to moral, political and aesthetic considerations in the novels and stories - particularly Ulysses - this book provides a comprehensive account of masochistic elements in James Joyce's work. Cotter draws upon psychoanalytic theory and social history to illustrate the subversive power of perversity in the literature of the modern period. This edition first Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.