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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, Gregg, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baroque literature--History and criticism.

Baroque literature.

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

Literature, Modern.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Modernism (Literature).

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Continuum, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture explores the re-invention 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 Baroque 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:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why the baroque?; Part One: Renovations of the Seventeenth-Century Baroque; Part Two: Baroque and Modern; Part Three: Baroque and Postmodern; Part Four: Baroque and Postcolonial; Conclusion: One or many baroques?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786611298838

9781472545954

1472545958

9781281298836

1281298832

9781847143259

1847143253

OCLC:

290596060