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Filth: Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life
William A. Cohen
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Description for Filth: Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life
Paperback. Editor(s): Cohen, William A.; Johnson, Ryan. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11ill. BIC Classification: HB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation. It suggests the ongoing power of culturally mandated categories of exclusion and repression.Focusing on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the essays ... Read more
From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation. It suggests the ongoing power of culturally mandated categories of exclusion and repression.Focusing on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the essays ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816643004
SKU
V9780816643004
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