Zamora / Kaup Baroque New Worlds

Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9252-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 688 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zamora, Lois Parkinson

Kaup, Monika

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wolfflin, Heinrich

Benjamin, Walter

d'Ors, Eugenio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.