Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque by Kate Armond, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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 anindependent 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 ofmodernist 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. | Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque by Kate Armond, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters