The New Abject
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Author | : Ramsey Campbell |
Publisher | : Comma Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1912697459 |
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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.
Author | : Alan Beard |
Publisher | : Comma Modern Horror |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781905583591 |
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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.
Author | : Tony Magistrale |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780820470566 |
Download Abject Terrors Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Julia Kristeva |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2024-03-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0231561415 |
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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.
Author | : Sarah Eyre |
Publisher | : Comma Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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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.
Author | : Rina Arya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Abjection in literature |
ISBN | : 9780719096280 |
Download Abject Visions Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.
Author | : Megan Warin |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0813546907 |
Download Abject Relations Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"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.
Author | : Darieck Scott |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2010-07-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0814740944 |
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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.
Author | : Verlyn Klinkenborg |
Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679407286 |
Download Timothy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Deborah Caslav Covino |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0791484335 |
Download Amending the Abject Body Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.