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oapen-20.500.12657-759752024-03-28T09:42:06Z Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral Ryynänen, Max Kosonen, Heidi S. Ylönen, Susanne C. aesthetics ageing aging art history Bharata body cannibal comedy culture death disease disgusting dying emotion famine film food human illness insects literature maternity movies music rot senses society visual art vomit zombie This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a visceral emotion whose cultural situatedness and circulation has historically been overlooked in academic scholarship. Chapters challenge and supplement the biological understanding of disgust as a danger reaction and as a base emotion evoked by the lower senses, touch, taste and smell, through a wealth of original case studies in which disgust is analyzed in its aesthetic qualities, and in its cultural and artistic appearances and uses, featuring visual and aural media. Because it is interdisciplinary, the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields, including visual studies, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, history, literature, and musicology. 2023-08-31T08:43:29Z 2023-08-31T08:43:29Z 2023 book ONIX_20230831_9781000773439_37 9781000773439 9781003205364 9781032071008 9781032063782 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75975 eng Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies application/pdf n/a 9781000773439.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003205364 10.4324/9781003205364 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 79c3ffdb-8441-4a56-aa8e-2771a016935a 9781000773439 9781003205364 9781032071008 9781032063782 Routledge 242 [...] open access
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This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a visceral emotion whose cultural situatedness and circulation has historically been overlooked in academic scholarship. Chapters challenge and supplement the biological understanding of disgust as a danger reaction and as a base emotion evoked by the lower senses, touch, taste and smell, through a wealth of original case studies in which disgust is analyzed in its aesthetic qualities, and in its cultural and artistic appearances and uses, featuring visual and aural media. Because it is interdisciplinary, the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields, including visual studies, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, history, literature, and musicology.
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