Culture and Authority in the Baroque

Massimo Ciavolella, Patrick Coleman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

2021
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4471-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Massimo Ciavolella is a professor in the Department of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles. Patrick Coleman is a professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Introduction

MASSIMO CIAVOLELLA AND PATRICK COLEMAN

Believing and Not Believing': Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Wonder

PETER G. PLATT
Philosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700-1729, Or, The Soaring Muse

LORNA CLYMER
Marino and the Meraviglia

PAOLO CHERCHI
I Would Rather Drown, Than Not Find New Worlds

PAOLO FASOLI
Truth and Wonder in Naples circa 1640

JON R. SNYDER
'Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie': Listening in the Early Seicento

ANDREW DELL'ANTONIO
From Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Early Russian Baroque

RONALD VROON
Reconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine's Esther

ANN DELEHANTY
Apostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious Order

ERNESTA ZITSER
Self-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole's 'On Self-Knowledge'

JOHN D. LYONS
The Baroque Social Bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz

MALINA STEFANOVSKA
A Different Kind of Wonder? Women's Writing in Early Modern Spain

LISA VOLLENDORF

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Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4875-4471-5 / 1487544715
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-4471-3 / 9781487544713
Zustand	Neuware