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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2012
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| Series: | New World studies.
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| Online Access: |
Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813933146 0813933145 0813933137 9780813933139 1283705524 9781283705523 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |