Emotion and the seduction of the senses : baroque to neo-baroque /
This book examines the relationship between the cultural productions of the baroque in the seventeenth century and the neo-baroque in our contemporary world. The volume illuminates how, rather than providing rationally ordered visual realms, both the baroque and the neo-baroque construct complex per...
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Kalamazoo :
Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University,
[2018]
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| Series: | Studies in medieval and early modern culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Feeling Baroque in art and neuroscience : joy, sadness, pride, and a Spinozist solution to the quest for happiness / Monika Kaup
- The Baroque sublime : the affective power of landscape / Helen Langdon
- "Their jarring spheres confound" : John Milton's Paradise lost as a counter-Baroque war machine / Justin Clemens
- "To make them gaze in wonder" : emotional responses to stage scenery in seventeenth-century opera / Katrina Grant
- The role of emotions in the characters of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Autos sacramentales / Javier de la Rosa, Adriana Soto-Corominas, and Juan Luis Suárez
- Clouds and calculated emotions in the production of neo-Baroque spatial illusions in Las Vegas hotels and casinos / Peter Krieger
- Mirrors of reason, illusion, and infinity : the case of the Villa Patrizi / David Marshall
- Infinite bodies : the Baroque, the Counter-Reformation relic and the body of James II / Matthew Martin
- Chican@ saints : the persistence of religious bodies in Mexican America / Kat Austin
- The ecstasy (?) of Saint Teresa / John Weretka
- Faith and fetish : objects and the body in Catholic devotional practice / Lisa Beaven
- Hannibal : Baroque horror vacui and the theatre of senses / Angela Ndalianis.
