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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 204 S.
ISBN-13: 9783837652109
ISBN-10: 3837652106
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Großformatiges Paperback. Klappenbroschur
Autor: Ablett, Sarah J.
Hersteller: transcript
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: transcript Verlag, Gero Wierichs, Hermannstr. 26, D-33602 Bielefeld, live@transcript-verlag.de
Maße: 15 x 166 x 226 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah J. Ablett
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.07.2020
Gewicht: 0,324 kg
Artikel-ID: 118070470