Absorption and Theatricality in the Staging of Contempt: Flaubert, Baudelaire, Huysmans
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Drawing on two categories suggested by art historian Michael Fried – absorption and theatricality –, this article suggest a specification relative to how we feel and express a particular emotion: contempt. To better understand the distinction between absorbed and distanced contempt, and all the emotional consequences that ensue, three specific and contrasting examples taken from Flaubert, Baudelaire and Huysmans are analysed here.
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2025-01-19
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Zanetta, J. (2025). Absorption and Theatricality in the Staging of Contempt: Flaubert, Baudelaire, Huysmans. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai - Dramatica, 69(2), 61–74. Retrieved from https://dramatica.ro/index.php/j/article/view/322
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