Title Baroque modernity : an aesthetics of theater / Joseph Cermatori

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Series 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 Subject 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 Modernism (Literature) -- Baroque influences Aesthetics, Baroque Drama European drama Theater Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781421441542 1421441543

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