The theater of truth
Subtitle: the ideology of (neo)baroque aesthetics
By: William Egginton.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780804769549
Subjects: Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Baroque literature -- History and criticism; Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Truth (Aesthetics); Aesthetics, Modern
Description: This work argues that 17th-century baroque and 20th-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The author explores expressions of this problem in the art and literature of the Hispanic baroques, new and old.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the baroque as a problem of thought; title: Of baroque holes and baroque folds; title: How to build a baroque house (Cervantes, master architect); title: The theater of truth; title: The opacity of language and the transparency of being : on Góngora's poetics; title: The corporeal image and the new world baroque; title: The dream life of Calderón and Borges; title: The world well dressed : the later cinema of Pedro Almodóvar.