Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts

Name: Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts
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ISBN: 9780271006796

ISBN-10: 027100679X

ISBN-13: 9780271006796

Edition: 1990

Authors: Giancarlo Maiorino

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This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo and Giordano Bruno are taken as the founding fathers of the Baroque, and we see that beyond the Alps their lessons were echoed in Montaigne, Cervantes, and the Counter-Reformation culture of the Mediterranean basin. Maiorino shows that the common denominator that links the origins of the Baroque to its maturity is the concept of form as "process," which is then articulated into chapters on the formative unity of the arts, art forms at the threshold, and the development from humanist perfection to Baroque perfectibility. Such an evolution in…

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 222
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Ann Doyle-Anderson is Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Stephen F. Austin State University. Giancarlo Maiorino is Rudy Professor of Comparative Literature, Indiana University.



Acknowledgments


Illustrations


In the Belly of Indigence



Econopoetics and the Great Chain of Handouts


Starved to Death



The Mousetrap: The Price of Staying Alive



Inconspicuous Consumption: Of Toothpicks and Leftovers


Out of Laceria



The Water Carrier: From Subsistence to Prosperity



The Economic Culture of Toledan Provecho


The Price of Onomastics



Lzaro de Tormes: What's in a Name?



Will Lazarus Ever Be a Wage Earner?


Dividends of the Mind



The Cost of Education: A Tale of Two Cities



The Economy of Genre



At the Margins: Whose Renaissance?


Works Cited


Index of Names


Index