Tag: Abjection

Free Download Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art: Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood by Keren Moscovitch
English | October 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1350298182 | True EPUB/PDF | 264 pages | 3.3/28.6 MB
Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions. Using psychoanalysis and object-oriented feminism, Keren Moscovitch focuses on the work of several contemporary, provocative artists to initiate a dialogue on the role of intimacy in challenging and reimagining ideology.

Free Download Jessica A. Westerhold, "Ovid’s Tragic Heroines: Gender Abjection and Generic Code-Switching"
English | ISBN: 1501770357 | 2023 | 228 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Ovid’s Tragic Heroines expands our understanding of Ovid’s incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new perspective on the Roman poet’s persistent interest in these two characters and their paradigms. Ovid presents these two Attic tragic heroines as symbols of different passions that are defined by the specific combination of their gender and generic provenance. Their failure to be understood and their subsequent punishment are constructed as the result of their female "nature," and are generically marked as "tragic." Ovid’s masculine poetic voice, by contrast, is given free rein to oscillate and play with poetic possibilities.