From Modernism to Neobaroque
Subtitle: Joyce and Lezama Lima (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780838754207
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literature: Classics; Influence; 20th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Poetry; Europe; USA; Joyce, James,; General; American - General; European - General; 1882-1941; Criticism and interpretation; Lezama Lima, Jose; Lezama Lima, Josâe
Description: "From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lezama Lima examines the historical and intertextual relationships between the aesthetics of European modernism and contemporary Latin American literature in the neobaroque mode by means of a comparative analysis of the works of Jose Lezama Lima and James Joyce. Revising concepts such as influence, imitation, and appropriation, this work portrays "modernism" as a postcolonial "World" aesthetic rather than as a European-centered movement.

Contrasting Lezama's reading of Joyce to those by Borges, Pound, Eliot, and Stuart Gilbert, From Modernism to Neobaroque studies the systematic "refraction" of principles taken from Joyce - aesthetic epiphany, stasis, the use of neologisms, the "technic of the labyrinth," the "mythical method," and the fictional appropriation of Vico's New Science - in Lezama's novels.

At the same time, the book discusses different issues in Hispanic cultural history that influenced Lezama's reading of Joyce, describing a period of Joycean enthusiasm that arose in Hispanic American letters on the publication of the first Spanish translation of Ulysses."--BOOK JACKET.