The Hydra's Tale - Imagining Disgust

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.

About the author

Robert Rawdon Wilson is Professor Emeritus from the Department of English at the University of Alberta. He has also been a visiting professor at Mills College (USA), Deakin University and University of Melbourne (Australia), and the University of Aarhus (Denmark). His other books include In Palamedes' Shadow: Explorations in Play, Game, and Narrative Theory, Shakespearean Narrative, and Boundaries, and Other Fictions, a collection of short stories.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Rawdon Wilson, Robert Wilson, Robert Rawdon Wilson
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2002
• EAN: 9780888643681
• ISBN: 978-0-88864-368-1
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Currents; Currents; Currents (Inactive); Currents in Canadian Literatur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works