Baler Latin American Neo-Baroque

Senses of Distortion
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-59183-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 149 Seiten, eBook

Pablo
 
Baler studies the ruptures and continuities linking the de-centered dynamics of the 17
th
century to the logic of instability that permeates 20
th
 century visual and literary production in Latin America. Bringing philosophy, literary interpretation, art criticism, and a poetic approach to the history of ideas, Baler offers a new perspective from which to understand the uncanny phenomenon of baroque distortion. This interdisciplinary inquiry not only leads to a more specific formulation regarding the singularity of the reappropriations of the baroque in Spanish America, but also allows for a more comprehensive assessment of its historical reach in the broader context of the representational crisis of modernity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baler, Pablo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreward by David William Foster.- Preface.- Introduction: Senses of Distortion.- Metaphor.- Hyperbaton.- Anaphora.- Epilogue: Red Hot Death.- Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Pablo Baler is Associate Professor of Latin-American Literature at California State University, Los Angeles, USA and an International Research Fellow at the Centre for Fine Art Research at Birmingham City University, UK. A novelist and cultural critic, Baler is the author of the award-winning novel 
Circa 
and the
 
collection of short stories,
 La burocracia mandarina
, as well as the editor of 
The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-First Century
.