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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.
List of contents
Introduction1. From Visceral to the Aesthetic: Tracing Disgust in Contemporary Culture
Max Ryynänen, Heidi S. Kosonen, and Susanne C. YlönenSECTION I: Aesthetic Approaches to Disgust 2. Overcoming Disgust: Why, When, and Whether
Carolyn Korsmeyer3.
The Affective Nature of Horror
Filippo Contesi4. Illustrating Disgust as an Aesthetic Sentiment: Bharata's N¿¿yä¿stra and Abhinavagupta's
Abhinavabh¿rat¿S. BhuvaneshwariSECTION II: Disgust and Othering5. "Childish, Self-Centered, and Cruel": Classed Disgust, Maternal Complaint, and Mediated Morality in an Anonymous Online Discussion Board
Armi Mustosmäki and Tiina Sihto6. Performing Disgust: Affective Intersections of Misogyny, Racism, and Homophobia in Radical-Right Online Discussion
Tuija Saresma and Urho Tulonen7. The Yuck Factor: Reiterating Insect-Eating (and Otherness) Through Disgust
Heidi S. KosonenSECTION III: Foodways and Disgust8. Disgust by Association: Date Labelling, Standardization, and Freshness
Tanja Plasil9. "We Did Not Shrink From Eating Carrion": Food Disgust And Early Soviet Famines
Rebecca Manley and Iryna Skubii 10. Cannibals and Kin: Escaping the Disgusting in Newfoundland Fairy Tales
Pauline Greenhill and Diane TyeSECTION IV: Engaging with Disgust in Music and Visual Culture 11. "The Kind of Music that Makes My Skin Crawl": Disgust Associated with Musical Experiences
Henna-Riikka Peltola12. Music to Vomit to: The Dubstep Drop, the Bass Face, and the Sound of the Social Web
Edward K. Spencer13. Generative Disgust, Aesthetic Engagement, and Community
Erin BradfieldSECTION V: Disgust, Laughter, and Pleasure14. Producing Disgust: Profanation, the Carnivalesque, and Queering as Keys for Understanding the Unsettling Pop Cultural Performance of Die Antwoord
Susanne C. Ylönen15. Mortal Bodies, Disgust, and Affective Incongruity in Stand-Up Comedy
Outi Hakola16. A Cultural Approach to Sex-Related Disgust: Rethinking Shunga and Other "Perversions" in the 21st Century
Hiroshi Yoshioka
About the author
Max Ryynänen is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University.
Heidi S. Kosonen is Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä
Susanne C. Ylönen is Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä.
Summary
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 practises.
