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Interfaces, 2022 Humans are evolutionary adaptations of other biological organisms. However, socio-cultural adaptations associated with the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, the rise of monotheism, and the Scientific Revolution, have contributed to a radical ontological
Robert Geal
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“Challenging Borders: Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted as a Subversive Disability Memoir”
European Journal of American Studies, 2020 This article analyses Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted as a subversive memoir and “counter-diagnosis,” relying on disability studies, women studies and critical discourse analysis.
Pascale Antolin
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Analyzing the Concept of “Abjection” in David Cronenberg’s Cinema With an Emphasis on Female Characters Based on the Theory of Julia Kristeva [PDF]
هنرهای زیبا. هنرهای نمایشی و موسیقیIn contemporary thought, abjection is understood as a mechanism for preserving the integrity of subjectivity. Julia Kristeva first introduced this concept in Powers of Horror.
Ali Rouhani, atefe sarlak
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Abjection interrogated: Uncovering the relation between abjection and disgust
Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2017 Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, as propounded in Powers of Horror, emphasises the centrality of the repulsion caused by bodily experience in human life, and explains behaviours in and attitudes to our environment.
Rina Arya
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Aku dalam Kehinaanku!: Menafsir Kehinaan Menurut Julia Kristeva
Gema Teologika, 2017 Abjection normally is understood as the gross taste. However, whether such humiliation is also understood when placed in the frame of philosophy? Julia Kristeva states abjection with regard to aesthetics in art and literature through poetry catharsis ...
Paulus Eko Kristianto
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How He Got His Scars: Exploring Madness and Mental Health in Filmic Representations of the Joker
Societies, 2023 In May of 1939, DC Comics introduced their popular Batman series, but it was a year later when the iconic villain, the Joker, entered the story. What began as a lighthearted pulp comic has since evolved, with Batman’s enemies growing darker and more ...
Jeff Preston, Lindsay Rath-Paillé
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Convention, Repetition and Abjection: The Way of the Gothic [PDF]
, 2014 This paper employs Deleuze and Kristeva in an examination of certain Gothic conventions. It argues that repetition of these conventions- which endows Gothicism with formulaic coherence and consistence but might also lead to predictability and stylistic ...
Łowczanin, Agnieszka
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Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2015 Uncanny and Abject: Magical Thinking in the Works of Selma Lagerlöf and Carina Rydberg This article utilises Freud’s notion of ”the uncanny” and Kristeva’s concepts of ”abject” and ”abjection” in their original meanings as tools in the analysis of ...
Anna Forssberg
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A Santa with a Butt Plug:Paul McCarthy and the Obliterating Violence of Positivity [PDF]
, 2020 Kitsch is often seen as the denial of shit. Kitsch excludes from view everything that is unacceptable in human existence. In Paul McCarthy’s oeuvre, there is no such dichotomy.
Lushetich, Natasha
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Re-appropriating Abjection: Feminism, Comics and the Macabre Coming-of-Age [PDF]
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2023 Julia Kristeva’s theories on the abject have proven fruitful for feminist criticism, which has produced a huge body of research on the representation of motherhood and femininity as macabre.
Nicoletta Mandolini
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