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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"revulsion"”.
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Revulsion and Palatability: The Staying Power of Death Penalty Rituals - Last Meals and Beyond
… each period, rituality has helped cushion the revulsion that is inherently present when taking the life of a human being. If revulsion is not managed, the legitimacy of capital punishment can be questioned. The apex of the capital punishment legitimacy crisis in the US culminated in the Furman …
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Slapstick Carnage: The Absurd Universe of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
… in a state of flux between attraction and revulsion: relieving tension, then increasing it again and again, thereby defying easy structuring of how one should feel. This essay proposes that the gallows humor in the novel helps to establish an absurd universe (as delineated by Camus in The …
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Desiring Devastated Landscapes: Love After Ecological Collapse
… so-called “negative” affects like fear, disgust, revulsion, melancholy, shame, and despair can be an important part of ecological theory and activism. Furthermore, I contend there are other avenues for theorizing desire and kinship at the theoretical intersections of social marginalization and …
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Tudor prose satire : the dynamics of a visual mode
… elicits a response, usually a combination of revulsion and nervous amusement, regardless of how knowledgeable the viewer may be as to the precise nature of the traditions and conventions which influenced Bruegel. But one critical assumption, valid for both visual art and literature, maintains …
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The Labour Party and family income support policy; 1940-1979. An examination of the party's interpretation of the relationship between family income support and the labour market.
… against the regulation expressing moral revulsion and concern about its administration but only rarely opposition to the principle. A Labour government removed the stop when its operation affected only a tiny minority of families. The party was quickly involved in the development of the …
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Walking with wolves : an ethnographic investigation into the relationship between socialised wolves and humans.
Wolves have held a fascination, fear and or revulsion for humankind throughout history. At the UK Wolf Conservation Trust, a charity whose main aim in to educate the public about wolves, socialised wolves interact with volunteers and with members of the general public. Could a dangerous carnivorous …
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Gothic economies: Global capitalism and the boundaries of identity
… both of opportunity and danger, of allure and revulsion or horror---a set of mixed emotions which tends to suggest an insecure, unstable or divided subjectivity. This complicated relationship to the city provided much of the impetus for the quest to build a "bourgeois utopia"---a refuge located …
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Caulrophobia: An investigation of clinical features
… experience of significant distress, fear and/ or revulsion when exposed to the image and/or person of a clown (Stevenson, 2010). It may start in childhood and continue into adulthood (Spratley, 2009). There is limited scientific literature on this topic despite multiple online support groups …
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The jackal's wedding.
… mother as a teenager, he begins to feel pity and revulsion, but is never less than beguiled. Harry and Mackie’s pursuit, which owes as much to factors other than fears over Joules’ welfare, comes to an end as they begin to see how they can find a Nick Phillips Student no. : 2011025031 MA Creative …
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The wanderer: peregrinations in eldritch regions
… horror is not just an amalgam of terror and revulsion, as dictionary definitions would have it, but must also include a component of the uncanny. While it is not easy to produce the first two emotional responses, it is at least obvious what means should be employed. The uncanny, however, is …