Author: Spencer Golub
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810137836
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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In The Baroque Night, authorial idiosyncrasy hybridizes the concepts of "baroque" and "noir" across the fields of film, theater, literature, and philosophy, arguing for mental function as form, as an impossible object, a container in which the container itself is the thing contained. The book is an experiment in thinking difference and thinking differently, an ethics of otherness and the abstract. Spencer Golub inverts the unreality of the real and the reality of fiction, exposing the tropes of memory, identity, and authenticity as a scenic route through life that ultimately blocks the view. The Baroque Night draws upon materials that have not previously been included in studies of either the baroque or film noir, while offering new perspectives on other, more familiar sources. Leibniz's concepts of the monad and compossibility provide organizing thought models, and death, fear, and mental illness cast their anamorphic images across surfaces that are deeper and closer than they at first appear. Key characters and situations in the book derive from the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Henri-Georges Clozot, Jean-Pierre Melville, Oscar Wilde, Georges Perec, Patricia Highsmith, William Shakespeare, Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille, and Arthur Conan Doyle, among many others. This is virtuality and reality for the phobic, making it a fascinating and viable document of and episteme for the anxious age in which we (always) find ourselves living, though not yet fully alive. This performance of suspect evidence speaks to and in the ways we are organically inauthentic, the cause of our own causality and our own worst eyewitnesses to all that appears and disappears in space and time.
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Author: José Antonio Maravall
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816614458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Maravall focuses on the beginnings of Spanish Baroque mass culture as it developes in 17th century Spain and the role culture plays in the formation of the modern state in relationship to other western European contries.
Author: Renee Jocelyn Lindsey
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Domenico Pietropaolo
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442641630
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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The Baroque Libretto catalogues the Baroque Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto and offers an analysis of how the study of libretto can inform the understanding of opera.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139835211
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream retains R. A. Foakes' text and has been extensively updated by him. In the Introduction to what is widely acknowledged as Shakespeare's most popular comedy, Foakes describes the two main traditions in the play's stage history, one emphasising charm and innocence, the other stressing darker suggestions of violence and sexuality. He shows that both are necessary to a full understanding of the play. For this edition the editor has added a new account of important theatrical productions and scholarly criticism on the play that have appeared in recent years. The reading list has also been revised and updated.
Author: Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (éd.)
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
ISBN: 9782877758437
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Ce livre a pour objet l’étude des représentations du Songe d’une nuit d’été à l’écran, la pièce ayant fait l’objet d’un colloque qui s’est tenu à Rouen sous les auspices de la Société française Shakespeare. Les plus grands spécialistes de Shakespeare et de Shakespeare au cinéma ont contribué à l’ouvrage. Monolingue anglais, le livre contient en outre une bibliographie exhaustive sur le sujet.
Author: Nadir Lahiji
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474228526
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature of importing philosophical categories into architecture. Focusing particularly on the philosophical notion of the Baroque in Gilles Deleuze, this study examines traditional interpretations of the concept in contemporary architecture theory, throwing up specific problems such as the aestheticization of building theory and practice. Identifying these and other issues, Nadir Lahiji constructs a concept of the baroque in contrast to the contemporary understanding in architecture discourse. Challenging the contemporary dominance of the Neo-Baroque as a phenomenon related to postmodernism and late capitalism, he establishes the Baroque as a name for the paradoxical unity of 'kitsch' and 'high' art and argues that the digital turn has enhanced the return of the Baroque in contemporary culture and architectural practice that he brands a pseudo-event in the term 'neobaroque'. Lahiji's original critique expands on the misadventure of architecture with French Philosophy and explains why the category of the Baroque, if it is still useful to keep in architecture criticism, must be tied to the notion of Post-Rationalism. Within this latter notion, he draws on the work of Alain Badiou to theorize a new concept of the Baroque as Event. Alongside close readings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault related to the criticism of the Baroque and Modernity and discussions of the work of Frank Gehry, in particular, this study draws on Jacque Lacan's concept of the baroque and presents the first comprehensive treatment of the psychoanalytical theory of the Baroque in the work of Lacan.
Author: Amanda M. Holt
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 130457279X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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After the tragic shooting that had claimed her fiancé's life and threatened hers, Miranda had expected the world would be interested in another scandal before she even got discharged from the hospital. When the lies and accusations make things too hot in San Francisco, Miranda leaves for a place where she can heal and privately mourn the loss of her fiancé. A place far, far away from California: Waterhen, Manitoba, Canada. She has her Uncle Russ' cabin all to herself... at least until a certain formidable Aussie shows up. Unknown to her, Brian is the man her Uncle Russ hired to conduct surveillance on Richard's activities and ascertain the degree of her involvement. Now, here he is in Waterhen with a whole lot of bad news about some goings-on back home and the message that her Uncle Russ has appointed him as her bodyguard. Will Brian be able to keep Miranda safe from the darkness that means to end her? More than that, can he keep her safe from herself, from the darkness of her heart?
Author: Kate Armond
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 147441964X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian Poetics
