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The New Abject

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
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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 : 44,5 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.

The New Abject

Alan Beard,Lucie McKnight-Hardy,Matthew Holness,Ramsey Campbell,Bernardine Bishop,David Constantine,Margaret Drabble,Mark Haddon,Gaia Holmes,Lara Williams
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Author : Alan Beard,Lucie McKnight-Hardy,Matthew Holness,Ramsey Campbell,Bernardine Bishop,David Constantine,Margaret Drabble,Mark Haddon,Gaia Holmes,Lara Williams
Publisher : Comma Modern Horror
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1905583591

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The New Abject by Alan Beard,Lucie McKnight-Hardy,Matthew Holness,Ramsey Campbell,Bernardine Bishop,David Constantine,Margaret Drabble,Mark Haddon,Gaia Holmes,Lara Williams 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.

Powers of Horror

Julia Kristeva
Powers of Horror Book PDF

Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780231561419

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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.

The New Uncanny

Sarah Eyre,Ra Page
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Author : Sarah Eyre,Ra Page
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131678687

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The New Uncanny by Sarah Eyre,Ra Page Pdf

This collection brings together 15 specially commissioned stories by internationally acclaimed writers and filmmakers, to explore and update Freud's classic theory of 'The Uncanny' - his piercing and all-encompassing dissection of what gives us the creeps.

Abject Terrors

Tony Magistrale
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Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0820470562

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Abject Terrors is an expansive study of the most significant films from the prolific horror genre - from its origins in the 1920s and 1930s, to its contemporary representations. This survey brings together close analyses of individual motion pictures, demonstrating the interconnections among these filmic texts and their contribution to defining quintessential aspects of the modern and postmodern horror film.

Abject Visions

Rina Arya,Nicholas Chare
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Author : Rina Arya,Nicholas Chare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Abjection in literature
ISBN : 0719096286

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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

Deborah Caslav Covino
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Author : Deborah Caslav Covino
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,8 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.

Abject Performances

Leticia Alvarado
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Author : Leticia Alvarado
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822371939

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Abject Performances by Leticia Alvarado Pdf

In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or celebration, artists such as Ana Mendieta, Nao Bustamante, and the Chicano art collective known as Asco employ negative affects—shame, disgust, and unbelonging—to capture experiences that lie at the edge of the mainstream, inspirational Latino-centered social justice struggles. Drawing from a diverse expressive archive that ranges from performance art to performative testimonies of personal faith-based subjection, Alvarado illuminates modes of community formation and social critique defined by a refusal of identitarian coherence that nonetheless coalesce into Latino affiliation and possibility.

Abject Spaces in American Cinema

Frances Pheasant-Kelly
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Author : Frances Pheasant-Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857722140

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American cinema abounds with films set in prisons, asylums, hospitals and other institutions. Rather than orderly places of recovery and rehabilitation, these institutional settings emerge as abject spaces of control and repression in which adult identity is threatened as a narrative impetus. Exploring the abject through issues as diverse as racism, mental illness or the preservation of bodies for organ donation, thi book analyses a range of films including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Girl, Interrupted (1999) through to cult films such as Carrie (1976) and Bubba Ho-tep (2002). In these films, locations of coherence and order become places where the internal and repressed aspects of the body, individual and social, threaten to overwhelm the individual. Identity is compromised through harsh conditions, extreme discipline, the exertion of absolute control, and above all the restriction of personal space. Symbolically infantilised, forced to reassess aspects of the adult, the only escape is through violence; the eponymous Carrie escapes from her cupboard for a massacre, the women of Girl, Interrupted mutilate and annihilate themselves and Kubrick's Gomer Pyle shoots sadistic patriarch Sergeant Hartman in the 'head'. By analysing scenes of horror and disgust within the context of abject space, Frances Pheasant-Kelly reveals how threats to identity manifest in scenes of torture, horror and psychosexual repression and are resolved either through death or through traumatic re-entry into the outside world. Bringing together contemporary theoretical debates and critical disciplines, Abject Spaces in American Cinema offers a coherent and meaningful analysis of institutonal films and shows that the chaos of the abject space cannot be resolved- only escaped. This readable and engging tour of the abject in the institution of film will be immensely valuable to students of Film Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies.

The Abject of Desire

Konstanze Kutzbach,Monika Mueller
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Author : Konstanze Kutzbach,Monika Mueller
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 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.

Beauty and the Abject

Corrado Federici,Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Ernesto Virgulti
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Author : Corrado Federici,Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons,Ernesto Virgulti
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 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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Abjection and Representation

R. Arya
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Author : R. Arya
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780230389342

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Abjection and Representation by R. Arya Pdf

Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category.

Abject Relations

Megan Warin
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Author : Megan Warin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780813546902

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"Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, through detailed ethnographic investigations. Megan Warin looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis. Unraveling anorexia's complex relationships and contradictions, Warin provides a new theoretical perspective rooted in a socio-cultural context of bodies and gender. Abject Relations departs from conventional psychotherapy approaches and offers a different logic, one that involves the shifting forces of power, disgust, and desire and provides new ways of thinking that may have implications for future treatment regimes." --Publisher.

Extravagant Abjection

Darieck Scott
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Author : Darieck Scott
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,5 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.

Timothy

Verlyn Klinkenborg
Timothy Book PDF

Author : Verlyn Klinkenborg
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679407287

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Timothy by Verlyn Klinkenborg Pdf

Timothy, a tortoise who lived in the garden of eighteenth-century curate Gilbert White, speaks out on his life in the garden, his nine-day adventure outside the gate, his observations of the curious habits and habitations of humans, and the natural world around him. 30,000 first printing.