TY - BOOK AU - Ablett,Sarah J. TI - Dramatic Disgust: Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane T2 - Lettre SN - 9783839452103 AV - PN1650.A94 A35 2020. U1 - 809.2/9353 23/eng/20240417 PY - 2020///] CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - Aesthetics in literature KW - Aversion in literature KW - Drama KW - History and criticism KW - Themes, motives KW - Abjection KW - Aesthetic Theory KW - Aesthetics KW - Disgust KW - History of Theatre KW - Literary Studies KW - Literature KW - Sarah Kane KW - Theatre Studies KW - Theatre KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. Greek Tragedy & Pollution --; II. Ekel in Eighteenth- & Nineteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory --; III. The Drama of Existential Disgust & Psychoanalysis --; IV. Disgust around the Millennium --; V. Theorising Disgust for Drama Analysis --; VI. Case Study: Dramatic Disgust in the Works of Sarah Kane --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgements; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839452103?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839452103 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839452103/original ER -