Dramatic Disgust : : Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane / / Sarah J. Ablett.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lettre
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Table of 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