Baroque modernity : an aesthetics of theater /
Joseph Cermatori.
- 1 online resource.
- Hopkins studies in modernism .
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. / Epilogue: Glancing Back, Reaching Forward -- Note on Translations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I Which is a fact? -- 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.
9781421441542
Modernism (Literature)--Baroque influences. Drama--History and criticism.--20th century Theater--History--20th century. Aesthetics, Baroque. European drama--History and criticism.--18th century