Description |
1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Theater -- History -- 20th century.
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Aesthetics, Baroque.
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European drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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European drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- Baroque influences
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Aesthetics, Baroque
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Drama
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European drama
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Theater
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781421441542 |
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1421441543 |
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