The Theater of Truth

The Theater of Truth
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9780804773492
ISBN-13 : 0804773491
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Book Synopsis The Theater of Truth by : William Egginton

Download or read book The Theater of Truth written by William Egginton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation of a cultural strategy produced as a response to a specific problem of thought that has beset Europe and the colonial world since early modernity. This problem, in its simplest philosophical form, concerns the paradoxical relation between appearances and what they represent. Egginton explores expressions of this problem in the art and literature of the Hispanic Baroques, new and old. He shows how the strategies of these two Baroques emerged in the political and social world of the Spanish Empire, and how they continue to be deployed in the cultural politics of the present. Further, he offers a unified theory for the relation between the two Baroques and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values.


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