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Article: The (Neo) Baroque Effect: A Critical Inquiry into the Transformation and Application of a Conceptual Field to Comparative American Studies
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- Comparative Literature
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- July 1, 2009
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THE TERMS "BAROQUE" AND "NEOBAROQUE" have been frequently used in the last ten or fifteen years to highlight certain modern and contemporary artistic trends and characteristics, particularly in the aesthetic realm. A large body of novels produced in the West since the 1960s has been categorized s
po- radically under these rubrics. We are dealing here with a complex issue of defini- tion that concerns Latin America - in other words, Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian America, the French Caribbean, and a wide variety of examples in North Amer- ica, including the U.S., Anglo and Francophone Canada, especially Quebec, and Western Europe.1 In the following article, I propose a brief taxonomic analysis ...
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