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",...

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Other Authors: Kutzbach, Konstanze (Editor), Mueller, Monika, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Series:Genus--gender in modern culture ; 9.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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