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Article: Going for Baroque in the twentieth century: from Desnos to Brossard.
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- Quebec Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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J'escoute a demy transporte
Le bruit des ailes du Silence.
--Saint-Amant, "Le Contemplateur" (1628)
The twentieth century witnessed a resurfacing of the baroque. Less a time period than "un levier methodologique," according to sociologist Michel Maffesoli, the baroque designates a sensibility focused on the material world (1990, 154).(1) Etymologically, baroque comes from the Portuguese word for "irregular pearl," and it is a term used to designate a style of writing, art, and architecture created between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries and characterized by great liberty of form and fantasy. In the twentieth century the baroque ...