Abjection And Abandonment

Author : Saitya Brata Das
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811510296
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abjection and Abandonment written by Saitya Brata Das and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough and insightful examination of melancholy in philosophy and art. Since the advent of “philosophy,” the question of melancholy has been intimately connected with creativity. In addition, melancholy has taken on a new importance in contemporary discourses. Accordingly, this book revisits the fascinating question of how melancholy and creativity are linked in light of contemporary thought, and gathers studies from diverse disciplines, such as aesthetic theories, psychoanalysis, cultural theory, medical studies and sociological studies. All the contributions are trans-disciplinary in nature and will broaden readers’ understanding of various issues stemming from the question of melancholy. This book will be an indispensable read for scholars, researchers and practitioners in psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy and related fields.

Author : Ryan Thorneycroft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000097366
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Disablist and Ableist Violence as Abjection written by Ryan Thorneycroft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways in which disabled subjects are constituted, regulated, governed, and violated through an account of abjection. Extending interdisciplinary dialogues and approaches, it abandons a construct of violence (which by law requires a stable notion of a victim and a perpetrator) and moves to a theorisation of abjection to explore the ways in which disabled subjects are (re)produced, constituted, and treated through time. Deploying a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, this book sits at the intersections of criminology and sociology, re-thinks notions of dis/ability, violence, and subjectivity, and utilises crip and queer theory to imagine dis/ability differently. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology and criminology, and specifically those working the areas of life history work, post-structuralism, hate crime, and post-modern criminology.

Author : Ian Angus
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773566767
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Border Within written by Ian Angus and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997-05-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The border is the governing metaphor of the book. Angus argues that English Canadian identity revolves around maintaining a border between Canada and the United States, and suggests that the border between countries can also be seen as a border between self and Other, between humanity and nature. Multiculturalism and the ecology movement's rethinking of the relation between humanity and nature suggest that English Canadian social and political philosophy is oriented toward sustaining a border between self and Other, in order to preserve what is one's own while maintaining and respecting the Other. Angus argues that contemporary public discourse is hampered both by the tribalizing devolution of the politics of identity and the globalizing forces of corporate political economy. Addressing this impasse requires a new understanding of the politics of identity in English Canada and the creation of a theory of Canadian social identity as postcolonial, particularist, and pluralist.

Author : R. Arya
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230389341
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abjection and Representation written by R. Arya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category.

Author : Gary D. Rhodes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786432977
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stanley Kubrick written by Gary D. Rhodes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen essays examine the career and films of director Stanley Kubrick from a variety of perspectives. Part I focuses on his early career, including his first newsreels, his photography for Look magazine, and his earliest films (Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss). Part II examines his major or most popular films (Paths of Glory, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey). Part III provides a thorough case study of Eyes Wide Shut, with four very different essays focusing on the film's use of sound, its representation of gender, its carnivalesque qualities, and its phenomenological nature. Finally, Part IV discusses Kubrick's ongoing legacy and his impact on contemporary filmmakers. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Laura Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152753152X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fatal Attractions, Abjection, and the Self in Literature from the Restoration to the Romantics written by Laura Alexander and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection in several works by early British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era. This period saw an increased emphasis on understanding the self. Poems with anxious speakers or narratives featuring characters with considerable psychic pressures emerged as writers responded to ideas on consciousness by natural philosophers. The pursuit of self-knowledge also reached greater imaginative depths, inspiring new artistic movements, including sensibility, with its attention to expressions of the suffering self, and the Gothic, a mode of art that examines the self’s deepest fears. Romantic writers theorized about artistic genius, creating a cult of the self that has never left us. Kristeva offers a more complete psychoanalytic vocabulary for understanding the self’s unconscious motivations in literature written during this period, and this book provides readers interested in early British literature, philosophy, and literary theory with a constructive perspective for thinking about literary depictions of the self-in-crisis.

Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208993
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Icons written by Jennifer Coates and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One distinctive feature of post-war Japanese cinema is the frequent recurrence of imagistic and narrative tropes and formulaic characterizations in female representations. These repetitions are important, Jennifer Coates asserts, because sentiments and behaviours forbidden during the war and post-war social and political changes were often articulated by or through the female image. Moving across major character types, from mothers to daughters, and schoolteachers to streetwalkers, Making Icons studies the role of the media in shaping the attitudes of the general public. Japanese cinema after the defeat is shown to be an important ground where social experiences were explored, reworked, and eventually accepted or rejected by the audience emotionally invested in these repetitive materials. An examination of 600 films produced and distributed between 1945 and 1964, as well as numerous Japanese-language sources, forms the basis of this rigorous study. Making Icons draws on an art-historical iconographic analysis to explain how viewers derive meanings from images during this peak period of film production and attendance in Japan. ‘It is very difficult not to heap superlatives upon Making Icons. This splendid work sheds a shining light on the situation of women in post-war Japan, and on post-war Japan itself. Not only is this a deft reading of text and context, it expands the very notion of context, seeing stardom through the lens of filmic and extra-filmic texts. A must-read for anyone interested in Japanese cinema.’ —David Desser, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘This is a compelling book. I am excited by Jennifer Coates’s art-historically informed iconographic approach towards female representation in post-war Japanese cinema. Making Icons will certainly make a splash in the field of Japanese film studies.’ —Daisuke Miyao, Professor and the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature, University of California, San Diego

Author : Robert Slater (Of the Société du Câble Transatlantique Française)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Telegraphic Code, to Ensure Secresy in the Transmission of Telegrams written by Robert Slater (Of the Société du Câble Transatlantique Française) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yael Navaro-Yashin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822352044
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Make-Believe Space written by Yael Navaro-Yashin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the Turkish territory of Northern Cyprus, a self-defined state, which is actually imaginary (because it is only recognized by Turkey). This title examines the sense of haunted property and objects lost and gained in the partition, along with people's relation to the fictive remapping of places and history by this new state.

Author : Nadine Holdsworth
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1137597771
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Theatre and Social Abjection written by Nadine Holdsworth and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences? Has theatre been able to intervene in the social unease around Gypsy and Traveller communities? How has theatre challenged white privilege and the persistent denigration of black citizens? In approaching these questions, this book argues that the nation is blighted by a number of internal rifts that pit people against each other in ways that cast particular groups as threats to the nation, as unruly or demeaned citizens – as ‘social abjects’. It interrogates how those divisions are generated and circulated in public discourse and how theatre offers up counter-hegemonic and resistant practices that question and challenge negative stigmatization, but also how theatre can contribute to the recirculation of problematic cultural imaginaries.