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Title Cultural approaches to disgust and the visceral / edited by Max Ryynänen, Heidi S. Kosonen and Susanne C. Ylönen
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2023

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Series Routledge advances in art and visual studies
Routledge advances in art and visual studies.
Contents Introduction : From visceral to the aesthetic : tracing disgust in contemporary culture / Max Ryynänen, Heidi S. Kosonen, Susanne C. Ylönen. Section I : aesthetic approaches to disgust: Overcoming disgust : why, when, and whether / Carolyn Korsmeyer -- The affective nature of horror / Filippo Contesi -- Illustrating disgust as an aesthetic statement : Bharata's Nāṭyaśāstra and Abhinavagupta's Abhinavabhāratī / S. Bhuvaneshwari. Section II : disgust and othering: "Childish, self-centered, and cruel : classed disgust, maternal complaint, and mediated morality in an anonymous online discussion board / Armi Mustosmäki, Tiina Sihto -- Performing disgust : affective intersections of misogyny, racism, and homophobia in radical-right online discussion / Tuija Saresma, Urho Tulonen -- The yuck factor : reiterating insect-eating (and otherness) through disgust / by Heidi Kosonen. Section III : foodways and disgust: Disgust by association : date labelling, standardization, and freshness / Tanja Plasil -- We did not shrink from eating carrion : food disgust and early Soviet famines / Rebecca Manley, Iryna Skubii -- Cannibals and kin : escaping the disgusting in Newfoundland fairy tales / Pauline Greenhill, Diane Tye. Section IV : engaging with disgust in music and visual culture : "The kind of music that makes my skin crawl" : disgust associated with musical experiences / Henna-Riikka Peltola -- Music to vomit to : the Dubstep Drop, the Bass Face, and the Sound of the Social Web / Edward K. Spencer -- Generative disgust, aesthetic engagement, and community / Erin Bradfield. Section V : disgust, laughter, and pleasure: Producing disgust : profanation, the carnivalesque, and queering as keys for understanding the unsettling pop cultural performance of Die Antwoord / Susanne C. Ylönen -- Mortal bodies, disgust, and affective incongruity in stand-up comedy / Outi Hakola -- A cultural approach to sex-related disgust : rethinking shunga and other "perversions" in the 21st century / Hiroshi Yoshioka
Summary "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 practises. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception and experiencing 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Aversion.
Aversion -- Social aspects
Aesthetics -- Physiological aspects
Aesthetics -- Physiological aspects.
Aversion.
Form Electronic book
Author Ryynänen, Max, editor
Kosonen, Heidi S., editor
Ylönen, Susanne C., editor
LC no. 2022021143
ISBN 9781000773484
1000773485
9781003205364
1003205364