Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-161) and index.
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.
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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.
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9781847143259
Return of the Baroque in modern culture.
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Baroque literature-- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.