Overview
This book presents, from the point of view of the early modern historian, the legacy of Baroque thought in modern and contemporary literature, a highly under-researched subject that spans two disciplines and several centuries. Its purpose is not to discover the direct links and references of one culture in the other, but, rather, to present the patterns of thought that our time owes to the age of Baroque, namely both temporal and spatial plurality. The books explored here (Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, and The Investigator, by Dragan Velikić) are not novels that are consciously or purposefully Baroque in their structure, or use the age of the Baroque as the setting of their narratives. However, the Baroque is still present in them all, primarily as the aesthetic principle, as that invisible heritage that shapes the worldviews of their characters. They are Baroque in the sense of space they inhabit, and in the way reality and imagination are interwoven.
Full Product Details
Author: Jelena Todorović
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781527503489
ISBN 10: 1527503488
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 27 October 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Professor Jelena Todorović received her BA in the History of Art from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, before obtaining her MA and PhD degrees from University College London, UK. She is currently a Full Professor and Vice-Dean for International Cooperation at the University of the Arts in Belgrade. For the past ten years, she has been a Keeper of the State Art Collection in Belgrade. Although an art historian by training, her research interests are more directed towards early modern cultural history. Her publications include Catalogue of the State Art Collection of the Royal Compound in Belgrade (Volume One) (2014), Of Mirrors, Roses and Nothingness: The Concept of Time and Transience in the Baroque Culture (2012), An Orthodox Festival Book in the Habsburg Empire – Zaharija Orfelin’s Festive Greeting XIX of Mojsije Putnik in 1757 (2006), and “The Borrowed Spaces: Transgression, Possession and Utopia in the Political Spaces of the Archbishopric of Karlovci” in Die Erschilesung des Raumes: Konstruktion, Imagination, und Darstellung von Ràumen im Barokzeitalter (edited by Karin Friedrich, 2014), among others.
