Culture and Authority in the Baroque

Session 3 - Poetry & Wonder

arranged by

Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick Coleman

Center & Clark Professors, 2000-2001

May 4-5, 2001

at the Clark Library

This session reflects on the relation between baroque poetics and early modernity across a range of literatures, from Russia to the New World. “The true rule [of poetry] is to be able to break all rules at the right time and place, adapting oneself to current customs and to the taste of one’s age.” This sentence by Giambattista Marino defines in a few words the new principles of Baroque aesthetics: its prevalent anticlassical thrust and its reliance upon the element of surprise and shock to bring aesthetic pleasure to the reader. Papers explore this “poetics of wonder” and the different manner in which it was received along national-linguistic lines.

** Papers for this conference will be posted below, as they are received. Registrants who indicate that they do not have access to the Internet will receive hard-copies.  To view or download a paper, click on the paper title.  Please note that you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these documents (pdf files).  To obtain Adobe Acrobat Reader, go to http://www.adobe.com for further information.  Papers NOT posted on this page should be available in hard-copy form, and will be mailed to those who register in advance.  Papers will be available on this page until May 21, 2001.

Conference Program

Friday, May 4
9:00 a.m.   •   coffee

9:30 a.m.   •   session 1

Paolo Cherchi, University of Chicago
    Marino and the Meraviglia

Antonio Franceschetti, University of Toronto
    Novitâ and Meraviglia in the Baroque

Lisa Vollendorf, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
    A Different Kind of Wonder? Women’s Writing in Early Modern Spain

Lidia Sazonova, Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Science
    Poetic Facetiae in the East Slavic Baroque: Acumen, Poesia Artificiosa, Picta Poesis

1:00 p.m.   •   lunch

2:00 p.m.   •   session 2

Thomas Cerbu, University of Georgia
    “Te fama Thule novit ab ultimâ”: The Chapbook of Fabio Chigi

Andrew Dell’Antonio, University of Texas, Austin
    “Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie”: Listening in the Early Seicento

Ronald Vroon, UCLA
    From Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Russian Baroque

Felicity Baker, University College London
    The Poetic Force of the Word bizzarro in Don Giovanni

5:30 p.m.   •   reception
 
 

Saturday, May 5
9:00 a.m.   •   coffee

9:30 a.m.   •   session 3

Jane O. Newman, University of California, Irvine
    Bibliothecae baroccae: Books, Poetry, Aura

Peter G. Platt, Barnard College, Columbia University
    “Believing and not believing”: Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Wonder

Jon R. Snyder, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Unnatural Acts: Metaphor in Naples circa 1640

Hilaire Kallendorf, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
    Baroque Self-Exorcism and the Rise of the Novel

1:00 p.m.   •   lunch

2:00 p.m.   •   session 4

Jean-Claude Carron, UCLA
    Gallic Baroque: Ostentation and Propaganda

Paolo Fasoli, Hunter College, City University of New York
    “I would rather drown than not find new worlds”: Strategies of Wonder in Italian “Classicist” Poetry

Joachim Dyck, Universität Oldenburg
    “Against aesthetic pleasure”: Classical Tradition in the Poetics of the German Baroque


Registration Information

Registration deadline: April 20, 2001 Please note that space is limited and registration closes when capacity is reached.
To register, please fill out the form below and mail it to the Center address.
Registration fees: UC Faculty & staff: $15; students: free of charge; others: $25 Fees cover advance copies of papers, lunches and refreshments.


** Papers for this conference will be posted above, as they are received, from around mid-April. Those who indicate that they do not have access to the Internet will receive hard-copies.  To view or download a paper, click on the paper title.  Please note that you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these documents (pdf files).

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Culture and Authority in the Baroque

Session 3: Poetry and Wonder

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