Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque / / Kate Armond.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Armond, Kate,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance : ECSMDP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

First comparative study to address the rediscovery of baroque aesthetic in modernismDid you know that seventeenth-century philosophy influenced dance theory and evolutionary science during the modernist period? Or that in England, Italy and Germany the term ‘baroque’ was used almost exclusively as an insult until the 1900s? Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque fashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. Providing a fresh interpretation of the works of Djuna Barnes, Wyndham Lewis, Edward Gordon Craig and Isadora Duncan, the book broadens our understanding of modernist priorities and demonstrates how readily these ideas translate across genres. It shows that modernists are not passive recipients of baroque stereotypes but are instead painstaking in their research and innovative in their reworking of original sources. This is an introduction to key ideas, characters and techniques that will allow the baroque to be used as a conceptual and historical framework for analysing modernist achievements, thereby opening up new opportunities for further research.Key featuresFashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. EliotProvides new connections between philosophy/critical theory and modernist culture, links that are relevant to both popular and academic interestIntroduces key ideas, characters and techniques that allow the baroque to be used as both a conceptual and historical framework for analysing modernist achievements, thereby opening up new opportunities for research, and demonstrating how readily these ideas translate across genre

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 BAROQUE EUROPE -- 2 MODERN ALLEGORY: READING NIGHTWOOD THROUGH THE FORMS OF THE BAROQUE TRAUERSPIEL -- 3 BAROQUE VIENNA: NIGHTWOOD’S LOST ENLIGHTENED MODERNITY -- 4 NIGHTWOOD, BAROQUE SOUND AND SCHREI PERFORMANCE -- 5 BAROQUE BODIES: AGENCY, EXPRESSION AND MOVEMENT -- 6 THE APES OF GOD AND THE WORLD OF THE COMMEDIA -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX