Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Dramatic Disgust : Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane / Sarah J. Ablett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: LettrePublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9783839452103
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.2/9353 23/eng/20240417
LOC classification:
  • PN1650.A94 A35 2020.
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783839452103

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 online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)