LEADER 00000cam a2200685Ia 4500 001 ocn175043941 003 OCoLC 005 20160527041636.5 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 071018s2007 ne a ob 000 0 eng d 019 666984018|a712988695|a764536563 020 9781435604926|q(electronic book) 020 143560492X|q(electronic book) 020 9042022647 020 9789042022645 020 |z9042022647 020 |z9789042022645 035 (OCoLC)175043941|z(OCoLC)666984018|z(OCoLC)712988695 |z(OCoLC)764536563 040 N$T|beng|epn|cN$T|dYDXCP|dOCLCQ|dE7B|dIDEBK|dOCLCQ|dSNK |dEBLCP|dMHW|dOCLCQ|dOCLCF|dCOO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 PN710|b.A25 2007eb 072 7 TRV|x026090|2bisacsh 072 7 LIT|x000000|2bisacsh 082 04 809|222 090 PN710|b.A25 2007eb 245 04 The abject of desire :|bthe aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture / |cedited by Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller. 264 1 Amsterdam ;|aNew York :|bRodopi,|c2007. 300 1 online resource (309 pages). 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 Genus--gender in modern culture ;|v9 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 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. 520 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. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 648 7 Geschichte 1855-2006|2swd 650 0 Literature, Modern|xHistory and criticism.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129705 650 0 Culture.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85034755 650 0 Aesthetics.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85001441 650 7 Literature, Modern.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1000172 650 7 Culture.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/885059 650 7 Aesthetics.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/798702 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 700 1 Kutzbach, Konstanze.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names /nb2007026460 700 1 Mueller, Monika,|d1960-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/n96005738 776 08 |iPrint version:|tAbject of desire.|dAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007|z9789042022645 830 0 Genus--gender in modern culture ;|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/no2001075869|v9. 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=207902|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20160615|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID