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1 online resource (vii, 229 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-224) and index. |
| Summary |
This book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immune with their purported opposite. As an advanced critical introduction to the figure of contamination, the book makes explicit what so far has remained unarticulated ́⁸₂ what has only been implied ́⁸₂ within postmodern, poststructuralist and deconstructive theory. Combining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of 'the novels of Henry James, Herman Melville and H. G. Wells question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective. It offers fresh readings of classic films and literary texts, including Vertigo and Moby Dick, with the aim to ground theoretical insights in close analysis. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Climate Change and the Contamination of the Anthropocene -- 1 Contaminating Psychology with Biology: Descartes, Spinoza, Freud and Žižek -- 2 Contaminating the Visible with the Invisible: From Einstein via H.G. Wells to Hannah Arendt, Luhmannand Derrida -- 3 Contamination of Nature with Society: The Collapse of Natural Order from Melville to Wells and Ellison -- 4 Contaminating Judgement with its Suspension: Guilt and Punishment in Walter Benjamin, Herman Melville and Henry James |
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5 Contaminating the Digital: Action and Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock -- 6 Contaminating the Sacred with the Profane: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Biopolitics -- 7 Contaminating Posthumanism -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dialectical materialism.
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Dialectical materialism. |
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Science in literature.
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Science in literature. |
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Science in motion pictures.
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Science in motion pictures. |
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dialectical materialism. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mack, Michael, 1969- Contaminations. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016] 9781474411370 (OCoLC)920454089 |
| ISBN |
9781474470490 (electronic book) |
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1474470491 (electronic book) |
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9781474411370 (electronic book) |
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1474411371 (electronic book) |
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9781474411387 (epub) |
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147441138X (epub) |
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9781474418577 |
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1474418570 |
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1474411363 |
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9781474411363 |
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9781474411363 |
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1474411363 |
| Standard No. |
9781474411363 |
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