"Can take away your life but not give you death instead": Abjection as Sublime in Sarah Kane's Dramatic World

• Type: Article in National Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

Joana Matos Frias (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Cadernos de Literatura Comparada

ISSN: 1645-1112

Publisher: Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Letras. Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (ILCML)

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > Languages and Literature

CORDIS: Humanities

Other information

Abstract (EN): This paper will focus upon Sarah Kane’s polemic work from both an aesthetical and ethical point of view. Grounded on the most important XVIIIth century and early romantic aesthetic theories, it will discuss Kane’s “artful chamber of horrors” as one of the modes post-war XXth century artists found to cope with the world’s collapse and with the threatening degradation of human condition.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific