Baroque new worlds : representation, transculturation, counterconquest / edited by Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zamora, Lois Parkinson.

Kaup, Monika.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Baroque--Latin America.

Arts, Baroque.

Art, Latin American.

Latin American literature.

Cultural fusion and the arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (690 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traces the changing nature of Baroque representation across European and Latin American cultures, from an imperial aesthetic encoding Catholic ideologies, into a means of resistance to colonialism, into a mode of postcolonial self-definition.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup, ""Baroque, New World Baroque, Neobaroque: Categories and Concepts""; Part One: Representation: Foundational Essays on Baroque Aethetics and Ideology; The European Baroque; Editors' Note to Chapter One; 1. Friedrich Nietzsche, ""On the Baroque"" (1878); Editors' Note to Chapter Two; 2. Heinrich Wölfflin, Excerpt from the Introduction to ""Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art"" (1915); Editors' Note to Chapter Three

3. Walter Benjamin, Excerpts from ""The Origin of German Tragic Drama"" (1928)Editors' Note to Chapter Four; 4. Eugenio d'Ors, Excerpts from ""The Debate on the Baroque in Pontigny"" (1935); Editors' Note to Chapter Five; 5. René Wellek, Excerpts from ""The Concept of Baroque in Literary Scholarship"" (1945, rev. 1962); Editors' Note to Chapter Six; 6. Mario Praz, ""Baroque in England"" (1960); Editors' Note to Chapter Seven; 7. Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Chapter 2 from ""La folie du voir"", ""The Work of the Gaze"" (1986); The New World Baroque and the NeoBaroque

Editors' Note to Chapter Eight8. Alfonso Reyes, Excerpt from ""Savoring Góngora"" (1928); Editors' Note to Chapter Nine; 9. Ángel Guido, Chapter 1 from ""Redescubrimienta de América en el arte, 'America's Relation to Europe in the Arts'"" (1936); Editors' Note to Chapter Ten; 10. Pedro Henríquez Ureña, ""The Baroque in America"" (1940); Editors' Note to Chapter Eleven; 11. José Lezama Lima, Chapter 2 from ""La expresión americana"", 'Baroque Curiosity' (1957); Editors' Note to Chapter Twelve and Thirteen; 12. Alejo Carpentier, ""The City of Columns"" (1964)

13. Alejo Carpentier, Excerpt from ""Questions Concerning the Contemporary Latin American Novel"" (1964)Editors' Note to Chapter Fourteen and Fifteen; 14. Severo Sarduy, ""The Baroque and the Neobaroque"" (1972); 15. Severo Sarduy, Chapter 3 from ""Barroco"", ""Baroque Cosmology: Kepler"" (1974); Editors' Note to Chapter Sixteen; 16. Haroldo de Campos, ""The Rule of Anthropophagy: Europe under the Sign of Devoration"" (1981); Part Two: Transculturation: Colonial Practice; 17. Jorge Ruedas de la Serna, ""Góngora in Spanish American Poetry, Góngora in Luso-Brazilian Poetry: Critical Parallels""

18. José Pascual Buxó, ""Sor Juana and Luis de Góngora: The Poetics of 'Imitatio'"" (2006)19. Timothy J. Reiss, ""American Baroque Histories and Geographies from Sigüenza y Góngora and Balbuena to Balboa, Carpentier, and Lezama""; 20. William Childers, ""Baroque Quixote: New World Writing and the Collapse of the Heroic Ideal""; 21. Dorothy Z. Baker, ""Baroque Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century New France""; 22. Leo Cabranes-Grant, ""The Fold of Difference: Performing Baroque and Neobaroque Mexican Identities""; Part Three: Counterconquest: Postcolonial Positions

23. Gonzalo Celorio, Chapter 2 from ""Ensayo de contraconquista"", ""From the Baroque to the Neobaroque"" (2001)

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references (p. [627]-649) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-03660-6

9786613036605

0-8223-9252-6

OCLC:

680410966