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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Abject"”.
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Munich: The Abject Capitulation
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Civitas Peregrina : abject space in early immigrant Toronto
… hypothesizes that the confrontation with the 'abject other', that is, those peoples, practices and places that departed from the social norm, was foundational to the modern planning system.
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The malady lingers on : the abject and contemporary Asian horror cinema
The aim of this study is to bring together abjection theory, as elaborated in Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror and other relevant works (particularly, the establishment of “symbolic” and “semiotic” realms), with contemporary Asian horror cinema, in order to construct a detailed and effective …
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Moving through the Unsayable: Applying Julia Kristeva's Semiotic and Abject to Choreographic Analysis
… of language and her characterization of the abject--because of the ways they address the unsayable through body, repetition, and rhythm. Kristeva's texts, Desire in Language (1981) and Powers of Horror (1982), provide the dissertation's primary theoretical frameworks. The first text puts …
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The gooey, the bloody, and just plain gross: exploring art and visual culture with an abject visual methodology
… of disgust and the psychoanalytic theory of the abject as developed by Julia Kristeva and modified by later scholars like Chanter and Butler. However, these scholars do not concern themselves specifically with the arena of the visual. To address this lack, I have developed an abject visual …
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In the Voices of Men, Beasts, and Gods: Unmasking the Abject Persona in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry
… examines the dramatic use of personae of abjection in the works of contemporary and postwar Japanese women poets Ishigaki Rin: 1920-2004), Tomioka Taeko: b. 1935), Yoshihara Sachiko: 1932-2002), It├┤ Hiromi: b. 1955), and Isaka Yok├┤: b. 1949). Recognizing the strong sense of abjection …
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Reflections On Leaking Men And Abject Masculinities: Challenging Representations Of Male Identity In And Through Body-Based Performance Art
Towards the end of the last century discussions on the representation of masculinity in male body-based performance art placed emphasis on the deconstruction of normative masculine identities. The focus of these investigations tended to position the image of masculinity within Lacan’s sexuation …
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Bending and breaking the boundary between horror and comedy: an exploration of the existentialist function of the abject in the works of John Landis and Woody Allen
… effect, (2) Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler’s abject, (3) Sigmund Freud’s “uncanny,” and (4) Mikhail Baktin’s carnivalesque. The chapter will conclude with John Landis’ portions of The Twilight Zone: The Movie, as a linked history that welcomes exploration of Landis alongside Allen. Chapter Two …
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Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus
… both undergo the same, repetitive process of abjection, in particular, with the abject monstrous-feminine. Barbara Creed, drawing on Julia Kristeva's <em>Powers of Horror</em> and Lacanian psychoanalytic thought, uses the term "monstrous-feminine" to investigate abject, monstrous females in …
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Abjection in the novels of Marlene Van Niekerk
… with the focus on the representation of abjection in the texts under discussion.The theoretical point of departure of this study is Julia Kristeva's essay Powers of horror (1982), which addresses, in particular, the notion of abjection and how certain abject elements play a pivotal role …
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The Child-Soldier Deject: Abjection, Subjectivity, and Systemic Marginalization in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation and Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah Is Not Obliged
… Powers of Horror, claims is the substance of the abject. People’s fascination and perturbation with the abject are embodied in our cultural obsessions: one being the popularity of literatures depicting violent atrocities happening in faraway places—specifically, child-soldier narratives. The …
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Gynocentric Apuleius: Female Agency in 'The Golden Ass'
… correlation with Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject, while Apuleius’s female witches behave in horrific and chaotic ways that effectively emasculate their male prey, they do not fall within the same topos as other female witches. Instead, Apuleius’ witches appear to wield their magic in a way …
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Spectacular Subjects: Embodiment, Abjection & Imagined Community in Contemporary South Asian Fiction
<p>Through Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, this dissertation examines textual representations of the human body in contemporary South Asian fiction, arguing that such representations encode authorial responses to the incipient violence involved in the construction and assignment of subaltern …
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Troubling Dominant Discourses: Developing A Framework Of Subversion And Applying It To Autonomous Activism
… and Julia Kristeva’s (1982) theorizing on the abject. I use the concepts gleaned from my theoretical exploration to construct an analytical framework that offers ways of explaining the subversion of dominant discourses in the context of autonomous activism. The purpose of this endeavour is to …
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Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks
… the selected artists' utilisation of the abject and the grotesque in relation to their use of artistic mediums and modes of production as an attempt to create ambiguous and conflicting combinations of attraction and repulsion (the sublime aesthetic of delightful horror), thereby …
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Racism and Abjection in the (Post) Colony
This study examines Kristeva’s notion of abjection to understand the workings of colonial racism. Given the limitations of her Eurocentric standpoint, reference will also be made to the critiques and engagements with abjection by various other scholars. Abjection, when appropriately rethought, …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… of the Sublime, incorporating perceived abject states located in the non-Western Other. The magical principles relating to the fetish incorporate these abject states through body metaphors and mimetic principles of sympathetic magic. Fetish power in art operates through the exploitation …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… of the Sublime, incorporating perceived abject states located in the non-Western Other. The magical principles relating to the fetish incorporate these abject states through body metaphors and mimetic principles of sympathetic magic. Fetish power in art operates through the exploitation …
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Investigation of Proteretic Hopfield Networks
… of a delayed effect when forces acting on an abject are varied. It will be shown that the proteresis, which is the reverse of hysteresis, can increase the speed of convergence of the Hopfield network. We will make a comparison among the traditional Hopfield, the hysteretic Hopfield, and the …
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Peripheral memory : New York's forgotten landscape
… city through the lens of the interment of the abject. Historically, the state has provided for remains not otherwise cared for through what are commonly referred to as "potter's fields" - municipally owned burial grounds for the poor, the friendless, the alien, and the unknown. The location and …
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