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Book Disgusting Bliss

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  • Author : Lucian Randall
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-05-13
  • ISBN : 0857200909
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Disgusting Bliss written by Lucian Randall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunnewspaper asked if Chris Morris's July 2001 Brass Eye Special on paedophilia was 'the sickest TV ever?' It was certainly the most controversial, though his uncompromising style of comedy meant he was rarely far from trouble. Morris first came to national prominence at the heart of a group of virtually unknown comedians brought together by Armando Iannucci. This book follows them from their 1991 news satire On the Hour, which transferred from radio to television where it was reinvented as the equally successful The Day Today. It became impossible to watch bulletins without thinking of Morris's Paxmanesque anchor character chastising a reporter -- 'Peter! You've lost the news!' -- or authoritatively delivering nonsense headlines: 'Sacked chimney worker pumps boss full of mayonnaise.' Meanwhile co-star Steve Coogan created a lasting anti-hero in Alan Partridge, imbued with a horrible life all of his own. But Morris himself was always the most compelling character of all. Drawing on exclusive new interviews and original research, this book creates a compelling portrait of Morris from his earliest radio days and of the comedians and writers who frequently took on the industry they worked in, polarising opinion to such a degree that government ministers threatened to ban them entirely. THIS IS THE NEEEWWWWS!

Book Disgust

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  • Author : Winfried Menninghaus
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791486311
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book Disgust written by Winfried Menninghaus and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disgust (Ekel, dégoût) is a state of high alert. It acutely says "no" to a variety of phenomena that seemingly threaten the integrity of the self, if not its very existence. A counterpart to the feelings of appetite, desire, and love, it allows at the same time for an acting out of hidden impulses and libidinal drives. In Disgust, Winfried Menninghaus provides a comprehensive account of the significance of this forceful emotion in philosophy, aesthetics, literature, the arts, psychoanalysis, and theory of culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics addressed include the role of disgust as both a cognitive and moral organon in Kant and Nietzsche; the history of the imagination of the rotting corpse; the counter-cathexis of the disgusting in Romantic poetics and its modernist appeal ever since; the affinities of disgust and laughter and the analogies of vomiting and writing; the foundation of Freudian psychoanalysis in a theory of disgusting pleasures and practices; the association of disgusting "otherness" with truth and the trans-symbolic "real" in Bataille, Sartre, and Kristeva; Kafka's self-representation as an "Angel" of disgusting smells and acts, concealed in a writerly stance of uncompromising "purity"; and recent debates on "Abject Art."

Book The Colour Red

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  • Author : S.C Crane
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1678167290
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Colour Red written by S.C Crane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Disgust in Early Modern English Literature

Download or read book Disgust in Early Modern English Literature written by Natalie K. Eschenbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of disgust or revulsion in early modern English literature? How did early modern English subjects experience revulsion and how did writers represent it in poetry, plays, and prose? What does it mean when literature instructs, delights, and disgusts? This collection of essays looks at the treatment of disgust in texts by Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, and others to demonstrate how disgust, perhaps more than other affects, gives us a more complex understanding of early modern culture. Dealing with descriptions of coagulated eye drainage, stinky leeks, and blood-filled fleas, among other sensational things, the essays focus on three kinds of disgusting encounters: sexual, cultural, and textual. Early modern English writers used disgust to explore sexual mores, describe encounters with foreign cultures, and manipulate their readers' responses. The essays in this collection show how writers deployed disgust to draw, and sometimes to upset, the boundaries that had previously defined acceptable and unacceptable behaviors, people, and literatures. Together they present the compelling argument that a critical understanding of early modern cultural perspectives requires careful attention to disgust.

Book Living Without an Amygdala

Download or read book Living Without an Amygdala written by David G. Amaral and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading researchers, this book comprehensively covers what is known about the amygdala, with a unique focus on what happens when this key brain region is damaged or missing. Offering a truly comparative approach, the volume presents research on rats, monkeys, and humans. It reports on compelling cases of people living without an amygdala, whether due to genetic conditions, disease, or other causes. The consequences for an individual's ability to detect danger and regulate emotions--and for broader cognitive and social functions--are explored, as are lessons learned about brain pathways and plasticity. The volume delves into the role of the amygdala in psychiatric disorders and identifies important directions for future research. Illustrations include six color plates.

Book Fool s Gold

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  • Author : Janet Quin-Harkin
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-04-30
  • ISBN : 0062048333
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Fool s Gold written by Janet Quin-Harkin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the decorous drawing rooms of the East to the dirty Gold Rush tent city of Hangtown with its tinderbox violence, Libby Grenville traveled in search of her husband Hugh who'd followed his dream to California. She was a woman alone with two small children among rough men with raw frontier ways. Riverboat Gambler Gabe Foster laughed off her frosty Bostonian rebukes. But, as he saved her time and again from danger, their duel of wits ripened into a heart-hammering passion. Then came the news that Hugh was alive, in need of help - and Libby faced a cruel and difficult choice.

Book Bad Keys

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  • Author : J. B. Curry
  • Publisher : Arcanic Media
  • Release : 2019-01-29
  • ISBN : 1732790019
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Bad Keys written by J. B. Curry and published by Arcanic Media. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steamy romance and scintillating mystery in one hilarious romp! Fans of Janet Evanovich and Katie MacAlister will love this sexy new adventure. Luke Hansen, gentle giant and piano tuner from Minneapolis, is on a mission. He needs to catch the con man who sleazed off to Florida with a treasured piece of Piano Tuners Guild property. But when he tracks the thief down to the Castillo Import Company in Miami, he has no idea what kind of sexy Cuban insanity he’s in for. Esmeralda Castillo, swimsuit model and aspiring zookeeper, is not going to let some hunky piano man get in her way, not when there are elephants that need saving from unscrupulous ivory dealers. But when she finds herself up to her bikini in cocaine gangsters, drag queens, and alligator catchers, she decides that a smokin’ Minnesotan who can beat the daylights out of all of them just might come in handy. Esmeralda and Luke soon find themselves in a fight to the death over illegal commodities, family, and honor. But the most dangerous thing they’ll encounter? Love. Rated R for sex, violence, and pianos!

Book Reports of Committees

Download or read book Reports of Committees written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perpetual Winter

Download or read book Perpetual Winter written by K T Bowes and published by Hakarimata Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last hive has fallen. Only one queen remains. Should the world trust its fate to an angry sixteen year old? They told her the hive wasn't real. They said she shouldn’t let her imagination run wild. They told her it was time to grow up and stop day dreaming. Estefania's privileged childhood is finished. It ended with the arrival of the Forlornn battleship which brought danger with it on the next high tide. The natural world is in turmoil and an unexpected winter begins without warning. The bees are disappearing and the City of Men doesn't care. But Estefania knows the hive she visits is real and so are the bees. She knows because she’s the last queen. This is the first book in A Keeper's War trilogy. Start reading today and never again view bees in the same way.

Book Points

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  • Author : Jacques Derrida
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780804724883
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Points written by Jacques Derrida and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 23 interviews given over the last 2 decades illustrating the extraordinary breadth of Derrida's concerns & writings.

Book Escapade

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  • Author : Joan Smith
  • Publisher : Belgrave House
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN : 0974106852
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Escapade written by Joan Smith and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 1977 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella Fairmont, as the anonymous Miss Prattle, has taken the Duke of Clare to task regularly in her gossip column. The duke, unsuspecting, includes Ella and her aunt in his week-long country houseparty. He has also included the blue-blooded Lady Honor, the strikingly beautiful Miss Sheridan, and the multi-talented Miss Prentiss. How could one “ordinary” young lady with a sharp tongue compete with three sterling debutantes? Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett

Book Who Is Widow Winslow

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  • Author : Arlene Hill
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1329681983
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Who Is Widow Winslow written by Arlene Hill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Handbook of Disgust Research

Download or read book The Handbook of Disgust Research written by Philip A. Powell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the world's leading experts on disgust to fully explore this understudied behavior. Disgust is unique among emotions. It is, at once, perhaps the most “basic” and visceral of feelings while also being profoundly shaped by learning and culture. Evident from the earliest months of life, disgust influences individual behavior and shapes societies across political, social, economic, legal, ecological, and health contexts. As an emotion that evolved to prevent our eating contaminated foods, disgust is now known to motivate wider behaviors, social processes, and customs. On a global scale, disgust finds a place in population health initiatives, from hand hygiene to tobacco warning labels, and may underlie aversions to globalization and other progressive agendas, such as those regarding sustainable consumption and gay marriage. This comprehensive work provides cutting‐edge, timely, and succinct theoretical and empirical contributions illustrating the breadth, rigor, relevance, and increasing maturity of disgust research to modern life. It is relevant to a wide range of psychological research and is particularly important to behavior viewed through an evolutionary lens, As such, it will stimulate further research and clinical applications that allow for a broader conceptualization of human behavior. The reader will find: Succinct and accessible summaries of key perspectives Highlights of new scientific developments A rich blend of theoretical and empirical chapters

Book Dramatic Disgust

Download or read book Dramatic Disgust written by Sarah J. Ablett and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic disgust is a key component of most classic works of drama because it has much more potential than to simply shock the audience. This first extensive study on dramatic disgust places this sensation among pity and fear as one of the core emotions that can achieve katharsis in drama. The book sets out in antiquity and traces the history of dramatic disgust through Kant, Freud, and Kristeva to Sarah Kane's in-yer-face theatre. It establishes a framework to analyze forms and functions of disgust in drama by investigating its different cognates (miasma, abjection, etc.). Providing a concise argument against critics who have discredited aesthetic disgust as juvenile attention-grabbing, Sarah J. Ablett explains how this repulsive emotion allows theatre to dig deeper into what it means to be human.

Book Vivekchoodamani

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  • Author : Swami Chinmayananda
  • Publisher : Central Chinmaya Mission Trust
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 8175971401
  • Pages : 747 pages

Download or read book Vivekchoodamani written by Swami Chinmayananda and published by Central Chinmaya Mission Trust. This book was released on 2006 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Intellectual Exploration into the Infinite and the Eternal

Book Along the Edges of Electric Disgust

Download or read book Along the Edges of Electric Disgust written by Andre Perkowski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about a few things you might find interesting.