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Sublime drama : British theatre of the 1990s /
This monograph undertakes the task of analysing the dynamics of the communication between the stage and the audience in what has been commonly referred to as 'in-yer-face drama'. Rather than use the existing term the study proposes the aesthetic category of the sublime, which proves to be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013.
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| Colección: | CDE studies ;
Bd. 23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Thesis; 1.2 Overview of Chapters; 1.3 Previous Research; 2 Theory of the Sublime; 2.1 Longinus; 2.1.1 "The echo of a great soul"; 2.1.2 Sappho and the Threatened Subject; 2.1.3 The Turn of the Sublime; 2.2 Edmund Burke; 2.2.1 Towards an Aesthetic of Shocks: Burke; 2.2.2 The Beautiful and the Sublime; 2.3 Immanuel Kant; 2.3.1 Characteristics of the Aesthetic Feeling; 2.3.2 The Beautiful and the Sublime; 2.4 Jean-François Lyotard; 2.4.1 Lyotard and Kantian Reflective Aesthetic Judgement; 2.4.2 Adjusting Kantian Sublime to the Postmodern Context.
- 2.4.3 Realism2.4.4 The Inhuman; 2.4.5 The Threat of Privation; 2.4.6 The Ungraspable Presence; 2.5 Summary; 2.6 Theorizing the Sublime for Drama Analysis; 3 Case Studies; 3.1 Patrick Marber's Closer; 3.1.1 The Beautiful, the Agreeable and the Sublime; 3.1.2 Synopsis; 3.1.3 Internal Analysis: Moments of (In)Hospitality; 3.1.4 External Analysis: Moments of the (Un)Familiar; 3.2 Anthony Neilson's Normal; 3.2.1 Synopsis; 3.2.2 Bataille, Eros and Thanatos, and the Evil Inside; 3.2.3 Internal Analysis: Wehner's Sublime Encounter with Eros and Thanatos; 3.2.4 The External Level: Ecstasy of Minds.
- 3.3 Mark Ravenhill's Faust Is Dead3.3.1 Synopsis; 3.3.2 Seduction in Realism and in Sublime; 3.3.3 Internal Analysis: Consumerist Seduction of the Characters; 3.3.4 External Analysis: Sublime Seduction of the Audience; 3.4 Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis; 3.4.1 The Impossible Synopsis; 3.4.2 Internal Analysis: Singing on the Boundary; 3.4.3 External Analysis: the Influence of the Parergonal Language on the Audience; 4 Conclusion; 5 Works Cited.