Dramatic Disgust
Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane
Aesthetic disgust is a key component of most classic works of drama because it has much more potential than to simply shock the audience. This first extensive study on dramatic disgust places this sensation among pity and fear as one of the core emotions that can achieve katharsis in drama. The book sets out in antiquity and traces the history of dramatic disgust through Kant, Freud, and Kristeva to Sarah Kane's in-yer-face theatre. It establishes a framework to analyze forms and functions of disgust in drama by investigating its different cognates (miasma, abjection, etc.). Providing a concise argument against critics who have discredited aesthetic disgust as juvenile attention-grabbing, Sarah J. Ablett explains how this repulsive emotion allows theatre to dig deeper into what it means to be human.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Introduction
Seiten 9 - 14 -
I. Greek Tragedy & Pollution
Seiten 15 - 38 -
II. Ekel in Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory
Seiten 39 - 56 -
III. The Drama of Existential Disgust & Psychoanalysis
Seiten 57 - 74 -
IV. Disgust around the Millennium
Seiten 75 - 94 -
V. Theorising Disgust for Drama Analysis
Seiten 95 - 126 -
VI. Case Study: Dramatic Disgust in the Works of Sarah Kane
Seiten 127 - 172 -
Conclusion
Seiten 173 - 176 -
Bibliography
Seiten 177 - 200 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 201 - 204
30. Juli 2020, 204 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5210-9
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