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1.

The Baroque: Literature and Culture in Seventeenth-Century Europe » Read Now
by Peter N. Skrine. 182 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library
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Renaissance and Baroque Lyrics: An Anthology of Translations From the Italian, French, and Spanish » Read Now
by Harold Martin Priest. 290 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...A student of literature in the 1920's might never have heard "Baroque" as a term applied...significance. Was Baroque a period or a...include all of the literature within...
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The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (Chap. 15 "A Note on Baroque" and Chap. 16 "Baroque Tragedy") » Read Now
by Gilbert Highet. 764 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This landmark book explores the ways in which the Greco-Roman tradition has shaped modern European and American literature.
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The Literature of the Spanish People: From Roman Times to the Present Day (Includes discussion of Baroque literature in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Gerald Brenan. 500 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Baroque Bodies: Psychoanalysis and the Culture of French Absolutism » Read Now
by Mitchell Greenberg. 278 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Mitchell Greenberg explores the significance of fantasies of the body in seventeenth-century France through provocative and subtle readings of some of the most intriguing texts of the period.
Beginning with an eloquent invocation of the status of the king in classical France, Greenberg surveys the...
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Mitchell Greenberg explores the significance of fantasies of the body in seventeenth-century France through provocative and subtle readings of some of the most intriguing texts of the period.
Beginning with an eloquent invocation of the status of the king in classical France, Greenberg surveys the complex sociopolitical history of Louis XIV's reign, analyzing both Moliere and the entire corpus of Racine. The central chapters of Baroque Bodies deal with such fascinating texts as the Memoires of the abbe de Choisy (the first existing account of a male cross-dresser); two founding texts of the modern pornographic genre, L'ecole des filles and L'academie des dames; and the "autobiography" of Marie de l'Incarnation, the famous "mystic" and founder of the first Ursuline convent in Canada.
In addition to his richly nuanced readings, Greenberg integrates into his argument material from a broad array of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, feminism, epistemology, and history. He also points out the implications of his argument for the political, theological, and historical thought of the period, moving effortlessly from witch trials in France to discussions of bodies in Renaissance English literary criticism to the works of Bakhtin, Foucault, Freud, and Lacan.
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European Metaphysical Poetry » Read Now
by Frank J. Warnke. 317 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...quality in the literature of the late sixteenth...seventeenth, and "baroque" suggests this...styles within the Baroque. 4 Cf...Warren, Theory of Literature New...
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Poetry and Song in the German Baroque: A Study of the Continuo Lied » Read Now
by R. Hinton Thomas. 219 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The phrase is taken from A. Hoeree, Albert Roussel , Paris, 1938, p. 76. 2 E. Lunding, "German Baroque Literature: A Synthetic View", German Life and Letters , iii, 1949...
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Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures » Read Now
by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria. 284 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures Roberto Gonzelez...75-99. "Guillen as Baroque," Callaloo...Contemporary Literature 28 , no. 4...in...
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Milton and the Baroque » Read Now
by Murray Roston. 196 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Milton within a baroque setting is, in itself...acknowledge that literature cannot be isolated...analysis of the baroque as an art form must...its principles to literature...
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Richard Crashaw: A Study in Baroque Sensibility » Read Now
by Austin Warren. 260 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library