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| Title: | Hydra's Tale
: Imagining Disgust |
| Author: | Robert Rawdon Wilson |
| ISBN: | 0888643683 : 9780888643681 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 446 |
| Weight: | .786 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - May 2002 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | PHILOSOPHY: PSYCHOLOGY |
The Hydra's Tale: Imagining Disgust by Robert Rawdon Wilson (Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Alberta) is an informed and informative psychological and philosophical study of the experience of disgust: its origin, effect on human behavior, its use as a survival response, and much, much more. Carefully thought out and deftly written so as to be accessible for both scholars and non-specialist general readers alike, The Hydra's Tale is a truly fascinating and recommended look into a human emotion that most people strive to avoid, but inevitably experience within the context of their personal lives.
"Not only does Wilson employ the conclusions of several intellectual disciplines to build his argument and help him toward an original conclusion, he also brings to bear the potential of fiction to illustrate and define human experience. A writer of fiction himself, Wilson employs biofictography to place his often highly conceptual argument in a recognizable Lebenswelt; he also uses fiction, fables, parables, and yarns to illustrate the scope of particular problems. The Hydra's Tale is complex in its use of research and in the development of a multilevel argument. It is a provocative study." -- Brian J. Edwards, (Deakins University), Poetics Today, Vol. 25, No. 3.
