Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque - (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performan) by Kate Armond (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><i>Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque</i> fashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. <b></p></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>First comparative study to address the rediscovery of baroque aesthetic in modernism</strong></p> <p>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? <i>Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque</i> 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.<i></p></i><b> <p>Key features</p> <ul></b> <p></p> <p></p> <li>Fashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot</li> <li>Provides new connections between philosophy/critical theory and modernist culture, links that are relevant to both popular and academic interest</li> <li>Introduces 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<b></li></ul></b><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>*APPROVED* Addresses 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. Kate Armond is Lecturer in International Modernism at the University of Essex and before that she taught literature and critical theory at UEA. Her research interests include Modernist literature, Marxist theory, comparative literature, German Expressionism, visual culture and performance theory. Cover image: Venetian mask (c) Valentina Photos/Shutterstock.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-1962-8 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Kate Armond is Lecturer in International Modernism at the University of Essex and before that she taught literature and critical theory at UEA. Her research interests include Modernist literature, Marxist theory, comparative literature, German Expressionism, visual culture and performance theory. Her work has been published in <i>Textual Practice</i>, <i>Modernist Cultures</i>, <i>The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies</i> and <i>Utopia: The Avant-garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life</i>.<p>
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