Culture and Authority in the Baroque / / Massimo Ciavolella, Patrick Coleman.

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• TeilnehmendeR: Ciavolella, Massimo,; Coleman, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The cultural forms often referred to as ?baroque? are the most spectacular expressions of early modern Europe?s effort to mediate between knowledge and power at a time when political authority was being centralized, the authority of religion undermined by the division of Christianity, and science and poetry were seen increasingly as rival forms of intellectual authority. Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.The essays in this collection span what has been called the ?baroque crescent? stretching from Spain through Italy to Russia, but they also bring Shakespeare and English cosmological poetry into productive dialogue with continental Europe in the reinterpretation of baroque world-views. The editors, Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick Coleman, along with a group of eminent scholars from across the disciplinary and geographic spectrum, investigate baroque modes of persuasion with careful attention to the complexity of particular cultural phenomena and their political and aesthetic implications. This collection redefines the way the baroque will be understood.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. 'Believing and Not Believing': Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Wonder / Platt, Peter G. -- Chapter Two. Philosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700-1729, Or, The Soaring Muse / Clymer, Lorna -- Chapter Three. Marino and the Meraviglia / Cherchi, Paolo -- Chapter Four. I Would Rather Drown, Than Not Find New Worlds / Fasoli, Paolo -- Chapter Five. Truth and Wonder in Naples circa 1640 / Snyder, Jon R. -- Chapter Six. 'Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie': Listening in the Early Seicento / Antonio, Andrew Dell' -- Chapter Seven. From Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Early Russian Baroque / Vroon, Ronald -- Chapter Eight. Reconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine's Esther / Ehanty, Ann Del -- Chapter Nine. Apostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious Order / Zitser, Ernest A. -- Chapter Ten. Self-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole's 'On Self-Knowledge' / Lyons, John D. -- Chapter Eleven. The Baroque Social Bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz / Stefanovska, Malina -- Chapter Twelve. A Different Kind of Wonder? Women's Writing in Early Modern Spain / Vollendorf, Lisa -- Contributors -- Index