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The hydra's tale : imagining disgust / Robert Rawdon Wilson.
- Title
- The hydra's tale : imagining disgust / Robert Rawdon Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, R. Rawdon
- Publication
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, c2002.
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Details
- Description
- xxvii, 445 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In The Hydra's Tale, Robert Rawdon Wilson treats the experience of disgust not from the perspective of the disgusting object-in-the-world, but from its representation. Working through the spectrum of human response, culture, and art, Wilson teases out the assumptions that underpin the disgust response."--Jacket
- Series Statement
- Currents : an interdisciplinary series
- Uniform Title
- Currents (Edmonton, Alta.)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The hydra's spoor: loathsomeness -- Its stench: conceiving disgust -- Its lair: the representation of filth -- Its body: parts and machines -- Its many eyes: imagining disgust -- Its heads: perverse geometries -- Its venom: feeling abject.
- ISBN
- 0888643683
- OCLC
- 46624149
- SCSB-11049542
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library