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Author Armond, Kate, author

Title Modernism and the theatre of the baroque / Kate Armond
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2018
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Description 1 online resource
Series Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance
Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Contents Intro; MODERNISM AND THE THEATRE OF THE BAROQUE; Copyright; 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
Summary 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
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2018)
Subject Theater -- Europe -- History
Theater -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History
Modernism (Art)
Baroque literature.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Baroque literature
Modernism (Art)
Theater
Theater -- Political aspects
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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