Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest

Published by Duke University Press 2010

Baroque New Worlds

Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest

Edited by: Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup
With contributions by: Friedrich Nietzsche , Heinrich Wolfflin , Walter Benjamin and Eugenio d'Ors

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822392521

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Lois Parkinson Zamora is John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English, History, and Art at the University of Houston.

Monika Kaup is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Reviews

“Because it provides a masterful synthesis of the field (and because it
offers the first published translations of essential works written in Spanish, French, and Portuguese), the anthology (29 essays in total) is sure to become a mandatory first stop for all scholars of the Baroque. . . . Baroque New Worlds is a groundbreaking contribution for the study of transatlantic cultures,
and unusual attention to detail and presentation makes Zamora and Kaup’s volume user-friendly. . . . Baroque New Worlds reminds us that, in addition to compiling and reprinting texts, an anthology can be an intellectual tour de force in its own right.” - Antonio Barrenechea, Comparative American Studies

“Representing a step forward in understanding a tradition still productive in its multiplicity, this inclusive, sophisticated book highlights the trajectory of the baroque, which is sometimes submerged or ignored, but always developing into richer, more complex artifacts. Recommended.” - O. B. Gonzilez, Choice

“Zamora and Kaup's book represents a new refashioning of the term Baroque, as well as usefully engaging the term ‘Neo-Baroque’ that reinvigorates and resituates discussions in the field of aesthetics and cultural criticism.” - Pamela H. Long, The Comparatist

“Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest is an important and often captivating anthology that brings together key thinkers and formative writings on the aesthetic, political, and cultural dimensions of the Baroque. Embracing a transhistorical approach, Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup develop a rich understanding of the labyrinthine and slippery nature of the Baroque—from its European origins, to its adaptation within a New World context, to its Neobaroque metamorphosis in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is a meticulously edited work that promises to become a key text on the Baroque and Latin American culture.”— Angela Ndalianis, author of Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment

“Baroque New Worlds demonstrates the great and continuing usefulness of ‘Baroque’ as a way of making connections that might otherwise be hard to see, and of giving visibility to a large, important, and still-unfolding event in cultural history.”—Gordon Braden, author of Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance

“Because it provides a masterful synthesis of the field (and because it offers the first published translations of essential works written in Spanish, French, and Portuguese), the anthology (29 essays in total) is sure to become a mandatory first stop for all scholars of the Baroque. . . . Baroque New Worlds is a groundbreaking contribution for the study of transatlantic cultures, and unusual attention to detail and presentation makes Zamora and Kaup’s volume user-friendly. . . . Baroque New Worlds reminds us that, in addition to compiling and reprinting texts, an anthology can be an intellectual tour de force in its own right.”

-- Antonio Barrenechea Comparative American Studies

“Representing a step forward in understanding a tradition still productive in its multiplicity, this inclusive, sophisticated book highlights the trajectory of the baroque, which is sometimes submerged or ignored, but always developing into richer, more complex artifacts. Recommended.”

-- O. B. Gonzilez Choice

“Zamora and Kaup's book represents a new refashioning of the term Baroque, as well as usefully engaging the term ‘Neo-Baroque’ that reinvigorates and resituates discussions in the field of aesthetics and cultural criticism.”

-- Pamela H. Long Comparatist

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Baroque, New World Baroque, Neobaroque Categories and Concepts Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Representation: Foundational Essays on Baroque Aesthetics and Ideology
Chapter One. On the Baroque Friedrich Nietzsche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter Two. Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art Heinrich Wölfflin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter Three. The Origin of German Tragic Drama Walter Benjamin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter Four. The Debate on the Baroque in Pontigny Wendy B. Faris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter Five. The Concept of Baroque in Literary Scholarship René Wellek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter Six. Baroque in England Mario Praz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Chapter Seven The Work of the Gaze Christine Buci-Glucksmann and Dorothy Z. Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter Eight. Savoring Góngora Alfonso Reyes and Rosa Dutra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter Nine. America’s Relation to Europe in the Arts Ángel Guido and Patrick Blaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter Ten. The Baroque in America Pedro Henríquez Ureña and Rose Dutra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Chapter Eleven. Baroque Curiosity José Lezama Lima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Chapter Twelve. The City of Columns Michael Schuessler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Chapter Thirteen. Questions Concerning the Contemporary Latin American Novel Alejo Carpentier and Michael Schuessler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Chapter Fourteen. The Baroque and the Neobaroque Severo Sarduy and Christopher Winks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Chapter Fifteen. Baroque Cosmology: Kepler Severo Sarduy and Christopher Winks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Chapter Sixteen. The Rule of Anthropophagy: Europe under the Sign of Devoration Haroldo de Campos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Part Two. Transculturation: Colonial Practice
Chapter Seventeen. Góngora in Spanish American Poetry, Góngora in Luso-Brazilian Poetry: Critical Parallels Jorge Ruedas de la Serna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Chapter Eighteen. Sor Juana and Luis de Góngora: The Poetics of Imitatio José Pascual Buxó Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
Chapter Nineteen. American Baroque Histories and Geographies from Sigüenza y Góngora and Balbuena to Balboa, Carpentier, and Lezama Timothy J. Reiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	394
Chapter Twenty. Baroque Quixote: New World Writing and the Collapse of the Heroic Ideal William Childers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Chapter Twenty-one. Baroque Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century New France Dorothy Z. Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	450
Chapter Twenty-two. The Fold of Difference: Performing Baroque and Neobaroque Mexican Identities Leo Cabranes-Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
Part Three. Counterconquest: Postcolonial Positions
Chapter Twenty-three. From the Baroque to the Neobaroque Gonzalo Celorio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
Chapter Twenty-four. The Baroque at the Twilight of Modernity Irlemar Chiampi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	508
Chapter Twenty-five. The Novel as Tragedy: William Faulkner Carlos Fuentes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
Chapter Twenty-six. Góngora’s and Lezama’s Appetites Roberto González Echevarría Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	554
Chapter Twenty-seven. Europe and Latin America in José Lezama Lima Maarten van Delden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	571
Chapter Twenty-eight. Seeking a Cuba of the Self: Baroque Dialogues between José Lezama Lima and Wallace Stevens Christopher Winks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597
Chapter Twenty-nine. Concerning a Baroque Abroad in the World Édouard Glissant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	624
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	627
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	645
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	651

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 688
Illustrations
- Other: 52 illustrations, 4 figures

eBook

Published: July 13, 2010
ISBN: 9780822392521