Baroque modernity : an aesthetics of theater

Baroque modernity : an aesthetics of theater /

"A groundbreaking new study focused on the vital role of the baroque theater in shaping modernist philosophy, literature, and performance"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cermatori, Joseph, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Series:Hopkins studies in modernism.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature) > Baroque influences.
Drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Theater > History > 20th century.
Aesthetics, Baroque.
European drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
European drama > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literary criticism.
Theater reviews.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • On "baroque"
  • Introduction. Toward an Orphic modernism
  • Overcoming ascetic style : Nietzsche's transvaluation of the baroque against classical rhetoric and drama
  • The matter of spectacle : Mallarmé and the futures of theatrical ostentation
  • Landscapes of melancholy : Benjamin, Trauerspiel, and the pathways of tradition
  • The citability of baroque gesture : unsettling Stein
  • Epilogue. Glancing back, reaching forward.

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