Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest

690 Pages·2010·7.804 MB·English

by  Lois Parkinson Zamora, Monika Kaup (eds.)

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Baroque New Worlds

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Baroque New Worlds
Representation, Transculturation,
Counterconquest
Edited by
Lois Parkinson Zamora
and Monika Kaup
Duke University Press
Durham and London
2010
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 Sonnet 152 
Verde embeleso de la vida humana,
loca Esperanza, frenesí dorado,
sueño de los despiertos intrincado,
como de sueños, de tesoros vana;
alma del mundo, senectud lozana,
decrépito verdor imaginado;
el hoy de los dichosos esperado,
y de los desdichados el mañana:
sigan tu sombra en busca de tu día
los que, con verdes vidrios por anteojos,
todo lo ven pintado a su deseo;
que yo, más cuerda en la fortuna mía,
tengo en entrambas manos ambos ojos
y solamente lo que toco veo.
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green fascination of humanity,
mad hopefulness, frenzy in gold ornate,
Dream of the ones awake so intricate,
As is with dreams, the treasures vanity.
soul of the world, abloom senility,
Decrepit greenness in imagined state,
today for all the happy ones in wait,
tomorrow that the hapless long to see:
let trail your shadow in search of your day
those who, with lenses green for glasses plain,
to their desire see things drawn totally;
for i, in fortune mine more wise today,
in my two hands both of my eyes retain,
And only what i touch do i then see.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 
Translated by Carl W. Cobb

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 Contents 
    Illustrations xi
    Acknowledgments xiii
    lois Parkinson Zamora and monika kaup, “Baroque, New World  
Baroque, Neobaroque: Categories and Concepts” 1
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Part One   Representation
    Foundational Essays on Baroque Aesthetics and Ideology
The european Baroque
    Editors’ Note to Chapter One 41
  1  friedrich nietzsche, “On the Baroque” (1878) 44
Editors’ Note to Chapter Two 46
 2  heinrich Wölfflin, Excerpt from the Introduction to Principles of Art History:
The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art (1915) 49
    Editors’ Note to Chapter Three 55
  3  Walter benjamin, Excerpts from The Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928) 59
    Editors’ Note to Chapter Four 75
 4  eugenio d’ors, Excerpts from “The Debate on the Baroque  
in Pontigny” (1935) 78
    Editors’ Note to Chapter Five 93
  5  rené Wellek, Excerpts from “The Concept of Baroque in Literary Scholarship” 
(1945, rev. 1962) 95
    Editors’ Note to Chapter Six 115
 6  mario Praz, “Baroque in England” (1960) 119
Editors’ Note to Chapter Seven 136
 7  christine buci-glucksmann, Chapter 2 from La folie du voir, “The Work  
of the Gaze” (1986) 140
The new world Baroque and The neoBaroque
    Editors’ Note to Chapter Eight 161
 8  Alfonso reyes, Excerpt from “Savoring Góngora” (1928) 165
Editors’ Note to Chapter Nine 179
 9  Ángel guido, Chapter 1 from Redescubrimiento de América en el arte,  
“America’s Relation to Europe in the Arts” (1936) 183