Baroque horrors [electronic resource] : roots of the fantastic in the age of curiosities / David R. Castillo.
2010
PQ6066 .C365 2010eb
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Baroque horrors [electronic resource] : roots of the fantastic in the age of curiosities / David R. Castillo.
Author
Castillo, David R., 1967-
ISBN
9780472026685 (electronic book)
9780472117215
9780472117215
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 177 p.) : ill.
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PQ6066 .C365 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
860.9/64
Summary
"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 history, "reality" and "authenticity" may be experienced as spectator sports and staged attractions, as in the "real lives" captured by reality TV and the "authentic cadavers" displayed around the world in the Body Worlds exhibitions. Rather than thinking of virtual reality and staged authenticity as recent developments of the postmodern age, Castillo looks back to the Spanish baroque period in search of the roots of the commodification of nature and the horror vacui that accompanies it." "Aimed at specialists, students, and readers of early modern literature and culture in the Spanish and Anglophone traditions as well as anyone interested in horror fantasy, Baroque Horrors offers new ways to rethink broad questions of intellectual and political history and relate them to the modern age."--BOOK JACKET.
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Table of Contents
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 for the gaze
Monsters from the deep: Lozano's La cueva de Hércules and the politics of horror.
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 for the gaze
Monsters from the deep: Lozano's La cueva de Hércules and the politics of horror.