Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-644) and index.
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"Baroque, new world Baroque, Neobaroque: categories and concepts" / Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup -- "On the Baroque" / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The problem with the development of style in later art / Heinrich Wölfflin -- Excerpts from The origin of German tragic drama / Walter Benjamin -- Excerpts from "The debate on the Baroque of Pontigny" / Eugenio d'Ors -- Excerpts from "The concept of Baroque in literary scholarship" / René Wellek -- "Baroque in England" / Mario Praz -- "The work of the gaze" / Christine Buci-Glucksmann -- Excerpt from "Savoring Góngora" / Alfonso Reyes -- "America's relation to Europe in the arts" / Ángel Guido -- "The Baroque in America" / Pedro Henríquez Ureña -- "Baroque curiosity" / José Lezama Lima -- "The city of columns" / Alejo Carpentier -- "Questions concerning the contemporary Latin American novel" / Alejo Carpentier -- "The Baroque and the Neobaroque" / Severo Sarduy -- "Baroque cosmology: Kepler" / Severo Sarduy -- "The rule of anthropophagy: Europe under the sign of devoration" / Haroldo de Campos -- "Góngora in Spanish American poetry, Góngora in Luso-Brazilian poetry: critical parallels" / Jorge Ruedas de la Serna -- "Sor Juana and Luis de Góngora: the poetics of Imitatio" / José Pascual Buxó -- "American baroque histories and geographies from Sigüenza y Góngora and Balbuena to Balboa, Carpentier, and Lezama" / Timothy J. Reiss -- "Baroque Quixote: new world writing and the collapse of the heroic ideal" / William Childers -- "Baroque self-fashioning in seventeenth-century new France" / Dorothy Z. Baker -- "The fold of difference: performing Baroque and Neobaroque Mexican identities" / Leo Cabranes-Grant -- "From the Baroque to the Neobaroque" / Gonzalo Celorio -- "The Baroque at the twilight of modernity" / Irlemar Chiampi -- "The novel as tragedy: William Faulkner" / Carlos Fuentes -- "Góngora's and Lezama's appetites" / Roberto González Echevarría -- "Europe and Latin America in José Lezama Lima" / Maarten van Delden -- "Seeking a Cuba of the self: Baroque dialogues between José Lezama Lima and Wallace Stevens" / Christopher Winks -- "Concerning a Baroque abroad in the world" / Édouard Glissant.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Baroque New Worlds traces the changing nature of Baroque representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries, from its seventeenth-century origins as a Catholic and monarchical aesthetic and ideology to its contemporary function as a postcolonial ideology aimed at disrupting entrenched power structures and perceptual categories. Baroque forms are exuberant, ample, dynamic, and porous, and in the regions colonized by Catholic Europe, the Baroque was itself eventually colonized. In the New World, its transplants immediately began to reflect the cultural perspectives and iconographies of the indigenous and African artisans who built and decorated Catholic structures, and Europe's own cultural products were radically altered in turn. Today, under the rubric of the Neobaroque, this transculturated Baroque continues to impel artistic expression in literature, the visual arts, architecture, and popular entertainment worldwide.--Cover.