The return of the Baroque in modern culture
By: Gregg Lambert.
Publisher: New York; Continuum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Aesthetics); Postmodernism.; Baroque literature -- History and criticism.; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-161) and index.