Journal Article

Introduction

Moser, Walter

2017

Overview

Today the spectacle of this tail shows no signs of weakening-quite the contrary, as we have already seen. [...]the authors of this volume consider it as interesting an object of historical investigation and cultural analysis as the nucleus is. Baroque and Neo-Baroque shows, forms of metatheatre occur already in the historic baroque, and also in romanticism, modernism and postmodernism; therefore they cannot be used to define neo-baroque culture exclusively. [...]foregrounding a specific aspect of the phenomena under investigation by privileging a specific prefix in the analytical and critical discourse can certainly be a successful cognitive strategy as long as we agree to focus on this specific aspect, without pretending that it represents the complex totality of the phenomenon. Complexity in the first Atlantic Culture. [...]scholarly work in this field can and should take advantage of the concepts, the models and the methods that the theory of complex systems has developed recently and is offering us to look into the functioning of the baroque as one integrated cultural system. [...]postmodernity seems to develop a strategic affinity with the return of the baroque inasmuch as, in the cultural domain, it positively selects baroque cultural material and procedures to give these residual elements new meaning in the overcoming of a dominant paradigm towards the historically emergent.

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc
• Subject: Complexity / Contemporary literature / Cuban literature / Culture / Discourse analysis / Foregrounding / Modernity / Postmodernism / Prefixes / Sarduy, Severo (1937-1993)