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Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque

Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque

Armond, Kate

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performan

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474419623
ISBN13: 9781474419628
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Dec 18 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

First comparative study to address the rediscovery of baroque aesthetic in modernism
Did 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.

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