Transgression And Subversion

Author : Maren Lickhardt,Gregor Schuhen,Hans Rudolf Velten
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839444009

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Transgression and Subversion by Maren Lickhardt,Gregor Schuhen,Hans Rudolf Velten Pdf

Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his fictional social context? Why is the pícara so 'non-female'? What effect has her gender constitution on her fictional social context? In terms of a gendered subject, the picaresque figure has hardly been analyzed so far. Although scholars have recognized it as a transgressive and subversive model, the 'queer' effect of the figure is yet to be examined. With regard to the categories of class, generation, topography, and gender, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels narratologically from the perspective of culture and gender theories.

Author : Hastings Donnan,Fiona Magowan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780857456373

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Transgressive Sex by Hastings Donnan,Fiona Magowan Pdf

Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex, and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the "naturalness" of sex, including public health workers, clinical practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the humanities and social sciences.

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813010659

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Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature by M. Keith Booker Pdf

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world's most respected and widely read living writers. His work is marked by technical sophistication and by its alliance with a variety of trends in modern culture. To date little criticism of his work has made use of the important developments in literary theory in the past two decades. This book does that, analyzing Vargas Llosa's place in modern and postmodern criticism.

Author : Magdalena Cieslak,Agnieszka Rasmus
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443838405

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Against and Beyond by Magdalena Cieslak,Agnieszka Rasmus Pdf

Against and Beyond: Subversion and Transgression in Mass Media, Popular Culture and Performance is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars representing a number of disciplines discussing transgression and subversion in film, television, music, theatre and digital media. Moving across major political and cultural movements of the 20th century, the book addresses a global need for transgression and subversion in our times. Applying theories of Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, Adorno and Horkheimer, Deleuze and Guattari, and Butler, the volume is an important contribution to understanding the mechanisms and functions of subversion and transgression in contemporary media and popular culture and provides essential reading for all those seeking to go against and beyond.

Author : Joseph Harris
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cross-dressers
ISBN : 3823361147

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Hidden Agendas by Joseph Harris Pdf

Author : Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 1919876588

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Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems by Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers Pdf

This book explores the role of the social and natural sciences in supporting the development of indigenous knowledge systems. It looks at how indigenous knowledge systems can impact on the transformation of knowledge generating institutions such as scientific and higher education institutions on the one hand, and the policy domain on the other.

Author : Jonathan Dollimore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192561916

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Sexual Dissidence by Jonathan Dollimore Pdf

Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why, in other words, is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history - history rather than human nature - which has produced this paradoxical position? These are just some of the questions explored in this wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence which returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity. In the process it brilliantly links writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Gide, Wilde, and Genet, and cultural critics as different as St. Augustine, Freud, Fanon, Foucault, and Monique Wittig. So Freud's theory of perversion is discovered to be more challenging than either his critics or his advocates usually allow, especially when approached via the earlier period's archetypal perverts, the religious heretic and the wayward woman, Satan and Eve. The book further shows how the literature, histories, and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence prove remarkably illuminating for current debates in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural materialism. It includes chapters on transgression and its containment, contemporary theories of sexual difference, homophobia, the gay sensibility, transvestite literature in the culture and theatre of Renaissance England, homosexuality, and race.

Author : Taran Kang
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Aesthetics, European
ISBN : 9781487529079

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Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil by Taran Kang Pdf

Genius and the Spirit of Transgression -- Symbols of the Morally Bad -- Evil and the Sublime -- Wicked Spectators.

Author : Juhn Young Ahn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472053773

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Transgression in Korea by Juhn Young Ahn Pdf

Challenges our understanding of transgression-- its causes, goals, and motives-- across a comprehensive reading of South Korean media

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848882836

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Transgressive Womanhood: Investigating Vamps, Witches, Whores, Serial Killers and Monsters by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores the theme of evil, women and the feminine, indicating both the misogynist and subversive implications of the evil woman stereotype.

Author : George Alexander Kennedy,Christa Knellwolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521300142

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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 9, Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives by George Alexander Kennedy,Christa Knellwolf Pdf

This ninth volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory during the last century. Drawing on the combined expertise of a large team of specialist scholars, it offers an authoritative account of the various movements of thought that have made the late twentieth century such a richly productive period in the history of criticism. The aim has been to cover developments which have had greatest impact on the academic study of literature, along with background chapters that place those movements in a broader, intellectual, national and socio-cultural perspective. In comparison with Volumes Seven and Eight, also devoted to twentieth-century developments, there is marked emphasis on the rethinking of historical and philosophical approaches, which have emerged, especially during the past two decades, as among the most challenging areas of debate.

Author : Marion Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351218245

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Gender in the Music Industry by Marion Leonard Pdf

Why, despite the number of high profile female rock musicians, does rock continue to be understood as masculine? Why is rock generally assumed to be created and performed by men? Marion Leonard explores different representations of masculinity offered by, and performed through, rock music, and examines how female rock performers negotiate this gendering of rock as masculine. A major concern of the book is not specifically with men or with women performing rock, but with how notions of gender affect the everyday experiences of all rock musicians within the context of the music industry. Leonard addresses core issues relating to gender, rock and the music industry through a case study of 'female-centred' bands from the UK and US performing so called 'indie rock' from the 1990s to the present day. Using original interview material with both amateur and internationally renowned musicians, the book further addresses the fact that the voices of musicians have often been absent from music industry studies. Leonard's central aim is to progress from feminist scholarship that has documented and explored the experience of female musicians, to presenting an analytic discussion of gender and the music industry. In this way, the book engages directly with a number of under-researched areas: the impact of gender on the everyday life of performing musicians; gendered attitudes in music journalism, promotion and production; the responses and strategies developed by female performers; the feminist network riot grrrl and the succession of international festivals it inspired under the name of Ladyfest.

Author : Peter Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351566865

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Foucault and Law by Peter Fitzpatrick Pdf

Few thinkers can have had a more diverse or a more contested impact on theorizing law than Michel Foucault. This diversity is reflected in the wide range of Foucault's work and of the intellectual fields it has so conspicuously influenced. Such diversity informs the present collection and is signalled in the headings of its four sections: Epistemologies: archaeology, discourse, Orientalism Political philosophy: discipline, governmentality and the genealogy of law Embodiment, difference, sexuality and the law The subject of rights and ethics. Whilst the published work selected for this collection amply accommodates this diversity, it also draws together strands in Foucault's work that coalesce in seemingly conflicting theories of law. Yet the editors are also committed to showing how that very conflict goes to constitute for Foucault an integral and radical theory of law. This theory ranges not just beyond the restrained and diminished conceptions of law usually derived from Foucault, but also beyond the characteristic concern in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy to constitute law in its difference and separation from other socio-political forms.

Author : Katharine Kittredge
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472024414

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Lewd and Notorious by Katharine Kittredge Pdf

Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia Pilkington, whose sexual indiscretions caused her to fall from social and literary grace to become an articulate memoirist of personal scandal, and Elizabeth Brownrigg, who tortured and starved her young servants, propelling herself to an infamy comparable to Susan Smith's or Myra Hindley's. More awful women wait between these covers to teach us about society's reception (and construction) of their debauchery and dangerousness. The authors draw upon a rich range of contemporary texts to illuminate the lives of these women. Astute analysis of literary, legal, evangelical, epistolary, and political documents provides an understanding of 1700s womanhood. From lusty old maids to murderous mistresses, the characters who exemplify this period's vision of women on the edge are essential acquaintances for anyone wishing to understand the development and ramifications of conceptions of femininity.

Author : Gregory Blair,Noa Bronstein
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030553890

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The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts by Gregory Blair,Noa Bronstein Pdf

This book is an anthology of the varied strategies of spatial transgressions and how they have been implemented through the arts as a means to resist, rejuvenate, reclaim, critique or cohabitate. The book is divided into two sections – Displacements and Disruptions. The first section discusses the ramifications of the spatial displacements of bodies, organizations, groups of people and ethnicities, and explores how artists, theorists and arts organizations have an attentive history of revealing and reacting to the displacement of peoples and how their presence or absence radically reconfigures the value, identity, and uses of place. In the second section, each author considers how aesthetic strategies have been utilized to disrupt expected spatial experiences and logic. Many of these strategies form radical alternative methodologies that include transgressions, geographies of resistance, and psychogeographies. These spatial performances of disruption set into motion a critical exchange between the subject, space and materiality, in which ideology and experience are both produced/spatialized and deconstructed/destabilized.