TY - BOOK AU - Cermatori,Joseph TI - Baroque modernity: an aesthetics of theater T2 - Hopkins studies in modernism SN - 9781421441542 AV - PN2193 .B376 2021 KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Baroque influences KW - Drama KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Theater KW - History KW - Aesthetics, Baroque KW - European drama KW - 18th century KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2968576&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -