Introduction: a taste for the macabre in the age of curiosities -- Miscellanea: the garden of curiosities and macabre theater -- Sins of our fathers (and spouses): the preternatural in baroque exemplary tales -- Zayas' bodyworks: protogothic moral pornography or a baroque trap f…
Baroque Horrors turns the current cultural and political conversation from the familiar narrative patterns and self-justifying allegories of abjection to a dialogue on the history of our modern fears and their monstrous offspring. When life and death are severed from nature and …
"Baroque Horrors turns the current cultural and political conversation from the familiar narrative patterns and self-justifying allegories of abjection to a dialogue on the history of our modern fears and their monstrous offspring. When life and death are severed from nature and…
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.
Introduction : the baroque as a problem of thought -- Of baroque holes and baroque folds -- How to build a baroque house (Cervantes, master architect) -- The theater of truth -- The opacity of language and the transparency of being : on Góngora's poetics -- The corporeal image a…