Dramatic Disgust
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Dramatic Disgust

Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane

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Dramatic Disgust

Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
transcript Verlag
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9783837652109
eBook ISBN
9783839452103
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Art Theory & Criticism
Index
Literature
VI.
Case
Study:
Dramatic
Disgust
in
the
Works
of
Sarah
Kane
171
the
world,
the
stark
contrast
to
the
highly
ā€˜functionalā€™
and
superļ¬cial
(in
Nietzscheā€™s
terms
ā€˜Apollonianā€™)
discourse
s/he
ļ¬nds
herself
surrounded
by
in
the
medical
insti-
tution
increasingly
feeds
her/his
frustration
and
discourages
her/his
attempts
to
communicatively
connect
with
others.
Finding
no
way
to
overcome
or
integrate
her/his
nauseating
feelings
of
inhabiting
a
space
in-between
meaning
and
non-
meaning,
hope
and
despair,
life
and
death,
s/he
decides
to
cross
the
Dionysian
bor-
derline
of
ā€˜death
infecting
lifeā€™
in
favour
of
the
former
and
thus
ultimately
moves
into
a
space
beyond
disgust.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. I. Greek Tragedy & Pollution
  5. II. Ekel in Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory
  6. III. The Drama of Existential Disgust & Psychoanalysis
  7. IV. Disgust around the Millennium
  8. V. Theorising Disgust for Drama Analysis
  9. VI. Case Study: Dramatic Disgust in the Works of Sarah Kane
  10. Conclusion
  11. Bibliography
  12. Acknowledgements