![]() In this respect, the play depicts an absurd entertainment by reversing the material part denominated as disgusting to the aesthetical spectacle. ![]() Nonetheless, the reclamation of the disgusting back into the culture by means of a discursive institution (the pearl company) ensures the appreciation of the abject only when filtered corresponding to human practices of artistic creation and capitalist means. By doing so, the play wittingly presents the intricate feeling in consequence of the encounter with the abject. Such dramatization by Neilson shows that the abject becomes the substratum of appreciation when processed in accordance with human aesthetics and artistic prerequisites. Within this theoretical framework, I will mainly focus on the touching story of Sanzonetta, an Italian girl whose pimples contain small pearls. Therefore, it is degraded into the status of the abject. Reminding one of one’s mortality and animality, the body is thus a source of hatred and fear. In order to overcome this ecophobic fear of relational materiality, human beings separate themselves from material formations, announcing their superior positions as intellectual beings. ![]() Anthony Neilson’s Edward Gant’s amazing feats of loneliness (2002) analyses how the human body separated from cultural practices in its own feats of loneliness becomes the epitome of the abject.
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