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Author Cermatori, Joseph, 1983- author.

Title Baroque modernity : an aesthetics of theater / Joseph Cermatori.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Hopkins studies in modernism
Hopkins studies in modernism.
Contents 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
Summary 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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Subject Modernism (Literature) -- Baroque influences.
Modernism (Literature) -- Baroque influences.
Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Drama.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Theater -- History -- 20th century.
Theater.
History.
Aesthetics, Baroque.
Aesthetics, Baroque.
European drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
European drama.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject European drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 18th century
1600-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781421441542
Print version: 9781421441528 1421441527 9781421441535 1421441535 (DLC) 2021002625 (OCoLC)1240305638
ISBN 9781421441542 (electronic book)
1421441543 (electronic book)
9781421441528
1421441527
9781421441535
1421441535