Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies
Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies explores twentieth-century French theorist Georges Bataille’s preoccupation with finding a way to resacralise existence through a form of sacrificial mysticism that excluded God and the concept of salvation. This PhD consists of both an...
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Curtin University
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/121 |
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| author | Bujalka, Eva |
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| description | Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies explores twentieth-century French theorist Georges Bataille’s preoccupation with finding a way to resacralise existence through a form of sacrificial mysticism that excluded God and the concept of salvation. This PhD consists of both an exegesis, which investigates Bataille’s notion of sacrifice, and a collection of five short stories that reimagine historical and mythological sacrifices in present-day Australia. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| language | English |
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| publishDate | 2015 |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-1212017-02-20T06:41:07Z Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies Bujalka, Eva Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies explores twentieth-century French theorist Georges Bataille’s preoccupation with finding a way to resacralise existence through a form of sacrificial mysticism that excluded God and the concept of salvation. This PhD consists of both an exegesis, which investigates Bataille’s notion of sacrifice, and a collection of five short stories that reimagine historical and mythological sacrifices in present-day Australia. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/121 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Bujalka, Eva Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies |
| title | Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies |
| title_full | Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies |
| title_fullStr | Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies |
| title_short | Quoniam Si Voluisses Sacrificium: Parables of Impossible Bodies |
| title_sort | quoniam si voluisses sacrificium: parables of impossible bodies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/121 |