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Dystopian Performatives: Negative Affect/Emotion in the Work of Sarah Kane
dc.contributor.advisor | Bial, Henry | |
dc.contributor.author | Knowles, Scott Knowles | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-08T23:02:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-08T23:02:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-05-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14666 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21857 | |
dc.description.abstract | "Dystopian Performatives: Negative Affect/Emotion in the Work of Sarah Kane" seeks to combine three areas of theoretical inquiry to understand the way that affect/emotion operates on an audience in the theatre: affect/emotion science, performance theory, and utopianism. Utilizing Sarah Kane’s body of work as a case study, this dissertation connects each of her plays to a distinct basic emotion in order to bracket the vast interconnections between affect/emotion science and the theatre: disgust within Blasted, anger within Phaedra’s Love, fear within Cleansed, memory within Crave, and sadness within 4.48 Psychosis. Specifically, Dystopian Performatives investigates the negatively valenced experiences that occur in the theatre as a kind of dystopian practice that seeks to critique the present and promote action to adjust the future. The dystopian performative theory demonstrates the way in which experiential and viscerally impactful moments in the theatre potentially create change within an audience that directly attacks social and cultural issues relevant to the content of Kane’s plays. The experience of affect/emotion, I argue, performatively “does,” or acts, on the body of the audience in a way that has a meaningful impact on cognition, behavior, ideology, and morality. | |
dc.format.extent | 260 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Theater | |
dc.subject | Cognitive psychology | |
dc.subject | Performing arts | |
dc.subject | Affect | |
dc.subject | Dystopia | |
dc.subject | Emotion | |
dc.subject | Feeling | |
dc.subject | Performative | |
dc.subject | Sarah Kane | |
dc.title | Dystopian Performatives: Negative Affect/Emotion in the Work of Sarah Kane | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Rovit, Rebecca | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Gronbeck-Tedesco, John | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Hodges Persley, Nicole | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Forth, Christopher | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Theatre | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
dc.identifier.orcid | ||
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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