LEADER 05222nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910778113403321 005 20230721031737.0 010 $a1-282-26558-X 010 $a9786612265587 010 $a94-012-0489-6 010 $a1-4356-0492-X 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401204897 035 $a(CKB)1000000000478999 035 $a(EBL)556710 035 $a(OCoLC)175043941 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000096117 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11122285 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096117 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10075369 035 $a(PQKB)11388138 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556710 035 $a(OCoLC)175043941$z(OCoLC)666984018$z(OCoLC)712988695$z(OCoLC)764536563$z(OCoLC)961485544$z(OCoLC)962647842$z(OCoLC)988504506$z(OCoLC)992097823 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401204897 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556710 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380539 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL226558 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000478999 100 $a20071106d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe abject of desire$b[electronic resource] $ethe aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture /$fedited by Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cRodopi$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 225 1 $aGenus--gender in modern culture ;$v9 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2264-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tIntroduction /$rKonstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller -- $tOn the Matter of Abjection /$rHanjo Berressem -- $tQueer Transformations: Renegotiating the Abject in Contemporary Anglo-American Lesbian Fiction /$rPaulina Palmer -- $tThe Bhibhitsa Rasa in Anglophone Indian Cultural Discourse: The Repugnant and Distasteful at the Level of Gender, Race, and Caste /$rNilufer E. Bharucha -- $tThe Gothic-Grotesque of Haunted: Joyce Carol Oates?s Tales of Abjection /$rSusana Araújo -- $t?Now we know that gay men are just men after all?: Abject Sexualities in Leslie Marmon Silko?s Almanac of the Dead /$rDorothea Fischer-Hornung -- $tConsuming the Body: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism in Peter Greenaway?s Films /$rTatjana Pavlov -- $tShape-Shifters from the Wilderness: Werewolves Roaming the Twentieth Century /$rAndrea Gutenberg -- $tThe Two-?, One-?, None-Sex Model: The Flesh(-)Made Machine in Herman Melville?s ?The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids? and J. G. Ballard?s Crash /$rKonstanze Kutzbach -- $tFear, Melancholy, and Loss in the Poetry of Stevie Smith /$rRuth Baumert -- $tAmerican Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyle?s A Friend of the Earth /$rSylvia Mayer -- $tAbject Cannibalism: Anthropophagic Poetics in Conrad, White, and Tennant ? Towards a Critique of Julia Kristeva?s Theory of Abjection /$rRussell West -- $t?A Wet Festival of Scarlet?: Poppy Z. Brite?s (Un)Aesthetics of Murder /$rMonika Mueller -- $tInterior Landscapes: Anatomy Art and the Work of Gunther von Hagens /$rAlison Goeller -- $tViolence, Transgression, and the Fun Factor: The Imagined Atrocities of Will Self?s My Idea of Fun /$rFrank Lay -- $tNotes on Contributors. 330 $aThe Abject of Desire approaches the aestheticization of the unaesthetic via a range of different topics and genres in twentieth-century Anglophone literature and culture. The ?experience of disgust?, which Winfried Menninghaus describes as ?an acute crisis of self-preservation?, is correlated with conceptualizations of gender in theories of the abject/abjection. In view of this general crisis of identity in the experience of disgust, the contributions to this volume discuss examples of the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in cultural representations and locate conceptual (re)codings of the body, gender, and identity with regard to the abject as an immediate and uncompromising experience on the one hand, and a social and political phenomenon on the other. Considering a variety of cultural narratives by writers as diverse as Samuel Delany, Sarah Schulman, Joyce Carol Oates, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paul Magrs, J. G. Ballard, Stevie Smith, T. C. Boyle, Joseph Conrad, Poppy Z. Brite, and Will Self, by film directors John Waters and Peter Greenaway, playwrights Girish Karnad and Mahesh Dattani, and ?body artist? Gunter von Hagens, the contributors to this volume scrutinize different implications of the ambivalent concept of the abject/abjection. 410 0$aGenus--gender in modern culture ;$v9. 606 $aAesthetics 606 $aCulture 606 $aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAesthetics. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809 701 $aKutzbach$b Konstanze$01548938 701 $aMueller$b Monika$f1960-$01547026 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778113403321 996 $aThe abject of desire$93806369 997 $aUNINA