Absorption and Theatricality in the Staging of Contempt: Flaubert, Baudelaire, Huysmans
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2024.2.02Keywords:
contempt, emotions, Flaubert, Bovary, Baudelaire, Huysmans, dandyismAbstract
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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