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Baroque modernity : an aesthetics of theater / Joseph Cermatori.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hopkins studies in modernismDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421441542
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN2193 .B376 2021
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- On "Baroque" -- Introduction: Envisioning an Orphic Modernism -- 1 Overcoming Ascetic Style: Nietzsche and the Transvaluation of the Baroque -- Against Classical Rhetoric and Drama -- Nietzschean and Wagnerian Theatricalities -- Resentful and Affirmative Baroques -- De Te Fabula Narratur -- 2 The Matter of Spectacle: Mallarmé and the Futures of Theatrical Ostentation -- The Drama of Silence -- Hérodiade, "A Horrible Birth" -- Becoming Ornamental -- The Theater of the Book
"History Passes into the Setting"-Baroque Spatialization -- Baroque Allegory as Nonmimetic Theatricality -- The Catastrophe in Permanence -- "Enter, fleeing" -- 4 The Citability of Baroque Gesture: Unsettling Stein -- "To Mount It Up"-Baroque Citationality on Stage -- Allegorical Temporality -- Functional Baroque Forms in Performance -- Last Act. / Which is a fact? -- Epilogue: Glancing Back, Reaching Forward -- Note on Translations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I
K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Subject: Baroque Modernity will appeal to readers in a wide array of disciplines, including comparative literature, theater and performance, art and music history, intellectual history, and aesthetic theory.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- On "Baroque" -- Introduction: Envisioning an Orphic Modernism -- 1 Overcoming Ascetic Style: Nietzsche and the Transvaluation of the Baroque -- Against Classical Rhetoric and Drama -- Nietzschean and Wagnerian Theatricalities -- Resentful and Affirmative Baroques -- De Te Fabula Narratur -- 2 The Matter of Spectacle: Mallarmé and the Futures of Theatrical Ostentation -- The Drama of Silence -- Hérodiade, "A Horrible Birth" -- Becoming Ornamental -- The Theater of the Book

3 Landscapes of Melancholy: Benjamin, Trauerspiel, and the Pathways of Tradition -- "History Passes into the Setting"-Baroque Spatialization -- Baroque Allegory as Nonmimetic Theatricality -- The Catastrophe in Permanence -- "Enter, fleeing" -- 4 The Citability of Baroque Gesture: Unsettling Stein -- "To Mount It Up"-Baroque Citationality on Stage -- Allegorical Temporality -- Functional Baroque Forms in Performance -- Last Act. / Which is a fact? -- Epilogue: Glancing Back, Reaching Forward -- Note on Translations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I

J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Baroque Modernity will appeal to readers in a wide array of disciplines, including comparative literature, theater and performance, art and music history, intellectual history, and aesthetic theory.

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