Description: Further DetailsTitle: Baroque ModernityCondition: NewEAN: 9781421441535ISBN: 9781421441535Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/11/2022Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Joseph CermatoriLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: An Aesthetics of TheaterISBN-10: 1421441535Description: A groundbreaking study on the vital role of baroque theater in shaping modernist philosophy, literature, and performance. Finalist for the Outstanding Book Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Honorable Mention for the Balakian Prize by the International Comparative Literature Association, Winner of the Helen Tartar Book Subvention Award by the American Comparative Literature Association, Finalist of the MSA First Book Prize by the Modernist Studies Association Baroque style—with its emphasis on ostentation, adornment, and spectacle—might seem incompatible with the dominant forms of art since the Industrial Revolution, but between 1875 and 1935, European and American modernists connected to the theater became fascinated with it. In Baroque Modernity, Joseph Cermatori argues that the memory of seventeenth-century baroque stages helped produce new forms of theater, space, and experience around the turn of the twentieth century. In response, modern theater helped give rise to the development of the baroque as a modern philosophical idea. The book focuses on avant-gardists whose writing takes place between theory and performance: philosophical theater-makers and theatrical philosophers including Friedrich Nietzsche, Stéphane Mallarmé, Walter Benjamin, and Gertrude Stein. Moving between page and stage, this study tracks the remnants of seventeenth-century theater through modernist aesthetics across an array of otherwise disparate materials, including modern opera, Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theater, poetic tragedies, and miracle plays. By reexamining the twentieth century's engagements with Gianlorenzo Bernini, William Shakespeare, Claudio Monteverdi, Calderón de la Barca, and other seventeenth-century predecessors, the book delineates an enduring tradition of baroque performance. Along the way, Cermatori expands our familiar narratives of "the modern" and traces a history of theatricality that reverberates into the twenty-first century. 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Hopkins Studies in ModernismTopic: Music Dance & Theatre, HistoryRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Baroque Modernity
Title: Baroque Modernity
EAN: 9781421441535
ISBN: 9781421441535
Release Date: 01/11/2022
Release Year: 2022
Subtitle: An Aesthetics of Theater
ISBN-10: 1421441535
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Baroque Modernity : an Aesthetics of Theater
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Historiography, Modern / 20th Century, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Author: Joseph Cermatori
Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
