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Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral

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Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral Synopsis

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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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ISBN: 9781032063782
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Author: Max Aalto University, Finland Ryynänen
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 228 pages
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Genres: The arts: general topics
Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints
Cognition and cognitive psychology
Psychotherapy
Health & Fitness
Personal and public health / health education
Media studies
Medical sociology
History of art
Psychology: emotions

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