The return of the baroque in modern culture / Gregg Lambert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, Gregg, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Postmodernism.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Continuum, 2004.

Summary:

The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture explores the reinvention of the early European Baroque within the philosophical, cultural and literary thought of postmodernism in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America. Gregg Lambert argues that the "return of the Baroque" expresses a principle often hidden behind the cultural logic of postmodernism in its various national and cultural incarnations, a principal often in variance with Anglo-American modernism. Writers and theorists examined include Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Octavio Paz and Cuban novelists Alejo Carpentier and Severo Sarduy. A highly original and compelling reinterpretation of modernity, The Return of the Baroquee in Modern Culture answers Raymond Williams' charge to create alternative national and international accounts of aesthetic and cultural history in order to challenge the centrality of Anglo-American modernism.

Contents:

Introduction: Why the baroque? 1

Part 1 Renovations of the Seventeenth-Century Baroque

1 Historical antecedents in baroque criticism and theory 17

2 The baroque mechanism: Jose Antonio Maravall 28

3 The baroque eon: Eugenio d'Ors 39

Part 2 Baroque and Modern

4 Baroque and anti-baroque: Octavio Paz 51

5 The rhetoric of baroque temporality: Paul de Man 59

6 The baroque angel of history: Walter Benjamin 67

Part 3 Baroque and Postmodern

7 The baroque thesis: Michel Foucault 79

8 Un recit baroque: Gerard Genette 91

9 From baroque emblem to postmodern panoramagram: Yury Lotman and Jacques Derrida 97

Part 4 Baroque and Postcolonial

10 The baroque conspiracy: Jorge-Luis Borges 111

11 Literature, taxonomy and 'The New World': Severo Sarduy 120

12 The baroque return: Alejo Carpentier's Concierto Barroco 130

Conclusion: One or many baroques? 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [150]-161) and index.

ISBN:

0826466486

OCLC:

55657436