On "baroque" -- Introduction. Toward an Orphic modernism -- Overcoming ascetic style : Nietzsche's transvaluation of the baroque against classical rhetoric and drama -- The matter of spectacle : Mallarme and the futures of theatrical ostentation -- Landscapes of melancholy : Benjamin, Trauerspiel, and the pathways of tradition -- The citability of baroque gesture : unsettling Stein -- Epilogue. Glancing back, reaching forward.
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