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.
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Copyrightjahr
2020
ISBN-Print
978-3-8376-5210-9
ISBN-Online
978-3-8394-5210-3
Verlag
transcript, Bielefeld
Reihe
Lettre
Band
0
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
204
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Frontmatter Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 4
Contents Kein Zugriff Seiten 5 - 8
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 9 - 14
I. Greek Tragedy & Pollution Kein Zugriff Seiten 15 - 38
II. Ekel in Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory Kein Zugriff Seiten 39 - 56
III. The Drama of Existential Disgust & Psychoanalysis Kein Zugriff Seiten 57 - 74
IV. Disgust around the Millennium Kein Zugriff Seiten 75 - 94
V. Theorising Disgust for Drama Analysis Kein Zugriff Seiten 95 - 126
VI. Case Study: Dramatic Disgust in the Works of Sarah Kane Kein Zugriff Seiten 127 - 172
