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Neobaroque in the Americas : Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film /

In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, the author examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neob...

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Autor principal: Kaup, Monika
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, the author examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural dynamics is overturning the traditional scholarship that confined the baroque to a specific period, class, and ideology in the seventeenth century. Reflecting on the rich, nonlinear genealogy of baroque expression, this book envisions the baroque as an anti-proprietary expression that brings together seemingly disparate writers and artists and contributes to the new studies in global modernity
Descripción Física:1 online resource (392 pages).
ISBN:9780813933146