Essays about: "abjection"

Showing result 16 - 19 of 19 essays containing the word abjection.

  1. 16. Dirt, Decadence, and Dionysus -Treatise on the New Orleans punk scene

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Karoline Hjelle; [2013]
    Keywords : punk; subculture; class; the Dionysian; transgression; dirt; abjection; excess; homology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the relation between subcultures’ utilization of assumed working class attributes and those cultural elements tied to hedonism and boundary breaking. It does so by taking as its case a segment of the American punk- and traveling community as it expressed itself in New Orleans during the time of six spring weeks in 2012. READ MORE

  3. 17. Everything Is Connected to Everything Else : An Ecocritical and Psychological Approach to Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Agneta Helen Andersson; [2013]
    Keywords : The Stone Carvers; Jane Urquhart; Nature; Environment; Awareness; Ecocriticism; Abjection;

    Abstract : Nature is everywhere. Every day we have contact with it. Still, many of us do not realize how important it is for our survival. Descriptions of nature have always been present in novels. READ MORE

  4. 18. Re-thinking Abu Ghraib: A Discussion on the Abu Ghraib Images beyond the Iconic Reading

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Nina Kurdve; [2012]
    Keywords : Nina Kurdve; Kurdve; Abu Ghraib; Iraq; war on terror; representations of violence; abject; abjection; icon; iconic reading; digital context; the screen; we them; three sites of meaning; Kristeva; WJT Mitchell; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The research objective for this thesis are two problematic yet interweaving occurrences observed in earlier research on the Abu Ghraib scandal (2004) and its image material. Firstly in terms of methodology, a restricted amount of images in which three single images, “Hooded Man”, “Man on Leash” and “Piled Bodies” are overrepresented and frequently regarded as descriptive for the scandal as such. READ MORE

  5. 19. A Monumental Transgression : Incest, Abjection and the Unrepresentable in Paul Auster's Invisible

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Carl Widén; [2011]
    Keywords : Paul Auster; Invisible; Julia Kristeva; Abject; Incest;

    Abstract : This essay offers an analysis of Paul Auster's novel Invisible. The main focus of the essay is on the incestuous love affair between Adam Walker and his sister Gwyn. It is argued that the novel via this incestuous affair is addressing the issue of the unrepresentable, what Lacan termed the “real” that lies beyond the symbolic order. READ MORE