Overview

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. Since Neobaroque reconstitutions necessarily reference the European Baroque, this volume begins with the reevaluation of the Baroque that evolved in Europe during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Foundational essays by Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich Woelfflin, Walter Benjamin, Eugenio d'Ors, Rene Wellek, and Mario Praz recuperate and redefine the historical Baroque. Their essays lay the groundwork for the revisionist Latin American essays, many of which have not been translated into English until now. Authors including Alejo Carpentier, Jose Lezama Lima, Severo Sarduy, Edouard Glissant, Haroldo de Campos, and Carlos Fuentes understand the New World Baroque and Neobaroque as decolonizing strategies in Latin America and other postcolonial contexts. This collection moves between art history and literary criticism to provide a rich interdisciplinary discussion of the transcultural forms and functions of the Baroque. Contributors. Dorothy Z. Baker, Walter Benjamin, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Jose Pascual Buxo, Leo Cabranes-Grant, Haroldo de Campos, Alejo Carpentier, Irlemar Chiampi, William Childers, Gonzalo Celorio, Eugenio d'Ors, Jorge Ruedas de la Serna, Carlos Fuentes, Edouard Glissant, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Angel Guido, Monika Kaup, Jose Lezama Lima, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mario Praz, Timothy J. Reiss, Alfonso Reyes, Severo Sarduy, Pedro Henriquez Urena, Maarten van Delden, Rene Wellek, Christopher Winks, Heinrich Woelfflin, Lois Parkinson Zamora

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Author:   Lois Parkinson Zamora ,  Monika Kaup
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.975kg
ISBN:  

9780822346425

ISBN 10:   0822346427
Pages:   688
Publication Date:   13 July 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

"Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii ""Baroque, New World Baroque, Neobaroque: Categories and Concepts"" / Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup 1 Part One: Representation: Foundational Essays on Baroque Aesthetics and Ideology The European Baroque 1. ""On the Baroque"" (1878) / Friedrich Nietzsche 44 2. Excerpt from the Introduction to Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art (1915) / Heinrich Wolfflin 49 3. Excerpts from The Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928) / Walter Benjamin 59 4. Excerpt from Lo barroco, ""The Debate on the Baroque in Pontigny"" (1935) / Eugenio d'Ors 78 5. Excerpts from ""The Concept of Baroque in Literary Scholarship"" (1945, rev. 1962) / Rene Wellek 95 6. ""Baroque in England"" (1960) / Mario Praz 119 7. Chapter 2 from La folie du voir, ""The Work of the Gaze"" (1986) / Christine Buci-Glucksmann 140 The New World and the Neobaroque 8. Excerpt from ""Savoring Gonjora"" (1928) / Alfonso Reyes 165 9. Chapter 1 from Redescrubrimiento de América en el arte, ""America's Relation to Europe in the Arts"" (1936) / Angel Guido 183 10. ""The Baroque in America"" (1940) / Pedro Henriquez Urena 200 11. Chapter 2 from La expresion americana, ""Baroque Curiosity"" / Jose Lezama Lima 212 12. ""The City of Columns"" (1964) / Alejo Carpentier 244 13. Excerpt from ""Questions Concerning the Contemporary Latin American Novel"" (1964) / Alejo Carpentier 259 14. ""The Baroque and the Neobaroque"" (1972) / Severo Sarduy 270 15. Chapter 3 from Barroco, ""Baroque Cosmology: Kepler"" (1974) / Severo Sarduy 292 16. ""The Rule of Anthropophagy: Europe under the Sign of Devoration"" (1981) / Harolde de Campos 319 Part Two. Transculturation Colonial Practice 17. ""Gongora in Spanish American Poetry, Gongora in Luso-Brazilian Poetry: Critical Parallels"" / Jorge Ruedas de la Serna 343 18. ""Sor Juana and Luis de Gongora: The Poetics of Imitatio"" (2006) / Jose Pascual Buxo 352 19. ""American Baroque Histories and Geographies from Siguenza y Gongora and Balbuena to Balboa, Carpentier, and Lezama"" / Timothy J. Reiss 394 20. ""Baroque Quixote: New World Writing and the Collapse of the Heroic Ideal"" / William Childers 415 21. ""Baroque Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century New France"" / Dorothy Z. Baker 450 22. ""The Fold of Difference: Performing Baroque and Neobaroque Mexican Identities"" / Leo Cabranes-Grant 467 Part Three. Counterconquest Postcolonial Positions 23. Chapter 2 from Ensayo de contraconquista, ""From the Baroque to the Neobaroque"" (2001) / Gonzalo Celorio 487 24. Chapter 1 from Barroco y modernidad, ""The Baroque at the Twilight of Modernity"" (2000) / Irlemar Chiampi 508 25. ""The Novel as Tragedy: William Faulkner"" (1970) / Carlos Fuentes 531 26. ""Gongora's and Lezama's Appetites"" (1978) / Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria 554 27. ""Europe and Latin America in Jose Lezama Lima"" / Maarten van Delden 571 28. ""Seeking a Cuba of the Self: Baroque Dialogues between Jose Lezama Lima and Wallace Stevens"" / Christopher Winks 597 29. Chapter from Poetics of Relation, ""Concerning a Baroque Abroad in the New World"" (1990) / Edouard Glissant 624 Bibliography 627 Contributors 645 Index 651"

Reviews

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. oGordon Braden, author of Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance Baroque New Worlds 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 Baroqueofrom 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. oAngela Ndalianis, author of Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment

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 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 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

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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.

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