It doesn’t matter if abjection is motivated by an actual irrational response or if it’s all just a performative show. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
The rhetoric of abjection is obvious. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
Anglia abjection scapegoat judge culminate curfew …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » “Frist told reporters] Reference
The book I'm working on now is all about female abjection. From Wordnik.com. [Lorraine Front and Center] Reference
See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
To me, the idea that it's either/or is an artifice of the abjection. From Wordnik.com. [What is Literary Fiction?] Reference
By her silence, her abjection, her suppression, he shall prevail: not otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Literary fiction is, I think, the X defined by the abjection of “genre fiction”. From Wordnik.com. [What is Literary Fiction?] Reference
The latter is patently unethical in its abjection of a group marked out by skin colour. From Wordnik.com. [An Open Letter to John C. Wright] Reference
All that matters with the abject is that which by which it is marked out for abjection. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
It's tricky, because abjection can result in that sort of rage-fuelled sociopathy, I think. From Wordnik.com. [Kings] Reference
I swear, abjection and dourness descend in March - at least for those of us in the Northland. From Wordnik.com. [Lucky Lady] Reference
They splashed ink in their nervous abjection, though not on Glinda in her celestial blue gown. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
The dream even includes its own dimension of socio-cultural abjection in that it throws off Frankenstein's. From Wordnik.com. [Hogle, Introduction, Frankenstein's Dream, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles] Reference
Every soul is on fire with love, and, at the same time, annihilated in its own unworthiness and abjection. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
I think it refers to a kind of narcissistic abjection or to a claim to stardom based on a staged vulnerability. From Wordnik.com. [Pulitzer Prize Winner Rae Armantrout, 2010's Miss Thing-In-Itself, Answers the Big Questions] Reference
The slaves bowed in deep abjection, turned and marched back through the doors which were then closed and barred. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
This, the argument goes, is a form of investment in its own right, and a neurotic one, an abjection of the fan inside. From Wordnik.com. [Critique From HereNow] Reference
But even as she measures and exults in the abjection of herself, a voice whispers in her soul that this is not the way. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
This is carried over in the 20th century in the abjection of “genre” by which “literary” fiction is constructed. From Wordnik.com. [On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction] Reference
They are not just products of the process of abjection but actually constituent parts of that process, acts of abjection. From Wordnik.com. [On Profanity: 4] Reference
When Manar al-Sana saw herself in this state of abjection and humiliation, she cried out and wept; but none succoured her. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I am attracted to the relentless abjection, linguistic energy, and insight into the history of lyric address in Coeur de Lion. From Wordnik.com. [Lorraine Front and Center] Reference
I have so much to say and write about abjection that I..., well, I'm finding the conversations here on your blog very helpful. From Wordnik.com. [Lorraine Front and Center] Reference
Those who are not themselves the abject are often blind to the discourse of abjection, often even unwitting participants in it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
My own response refers to the previous question on “otherness” and the notion of abjection I applied to it in my own post on the topic. From Wordnik.com. [What is Literary Fiction?] Reference
Historically, by a process of abjection, various groups identifed by markers of deviance have been rendered scapegoat figures, disenfranchised. From Wordnik.com. [An Open Letter to John C. Wright] Reference
Every night I sat beweeping our separation and that which I suffered, since thy departure, of humiliation and ignominy, of abjection and misery. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The rationalist side of the dialectic responds with the abjection of this “sensationalism” by which “(proper) literature” is constructed. From Wordnik.com. [On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction] Reference
When loathing is this mixed with self-loathing (how did we let this happen?) and abjection (now what happens?) can self-destruction be far behind?. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Grossman: Is there Something Happening Here? Does Mr. Jones Know What it is?] Reference
On examination of each we will invariably find the features that are the focus of abjection, rendering any attempt to treat these as genres nonsensical. From Wordnik.com. [On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction] Reference
Southey outdid his predecessor in casting England itself as the villain whose abjection would ensure the goodness of Madoc's colonial mission (Suleri 45). From Wordnik.com. [The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism] Reference
But if a story simply exploits that causal relationship rather than interrogating it, representation of abjection can shade into perpetration of abjection. From Wordnik.com. [Kings] Reference
Oppressed with the sense of her utter unworthiness, and brought down to the lowest depth of interior abjection, she dared scarcely look at or address her Sisters. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
This factors up in a society where that mentality is conventional (which is to say, a conventional society) to the abjection of groups identifiable by any marker of deviance. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out of compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
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