TY  - GEN
T1  - The abject of desire : the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture
T2  - Genus--gender in modern culture ;
A2  - Kutzbach, Konstanze
A2  - Mueller, Monika, 1960-
LA  - English
PP  - Amsterdam ; New York
PB  - Rodopi
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn175043941
AB  - 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
OP  - 309
CN  - PN710 .A25 2007eb
SN  - 9781435604926
SN  - 143560492X
SN  - 9042022647
SN  - 9789042022645
SN  - 9786612265587
SN  - 6612265582
SN  - 9401204896
SN  - 9789401204897
KW  - Literature, Modern : History and criticism.
KW  - Culture.
KW  - Aesthetics.
KW  - TRAVEL : Special Interest : Literary.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : General.
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Culture
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Ekel : Motiv
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Englisch.
KW  - Geschichte 1855-2006.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -