num_pages: 219
description: Analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors
language: French
title: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism)
titlecomplete: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) (English and French Edition)
genres: Essays, Art, Philosophy, Psychology, Theory, Horror, Feminism, Nonfiction, Psychoanalysis, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 3531
publisher: Columbia Univ Pr