Gregg Lambert is Associate Professor in English and Textual Studies at Syracuse University and author of The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

'...in Return of the Baroque, Lambert recuperates associations between the baroque, multiple modernities and an awareness of representation as artifice.'

• Introduction: Why the Baroque? Part One: Renovations of the Seventeenth Century Baroque; 1. Historical Antecedents in Baroque Criticism and Theory; 2. The Baroque Mechanism: Jose-Antonio Maravall; 3. The Baroque Eon: Eugenio d'Ors; Part Two: Baroque and Modern; 4. Baroque and Anti-Baroque: Octavio Paz; 5. The rhetoric of Baroque Temporality: Paul de Man; 6. The Baroque Angel of History: Walter Benjamin; Part Three: Baroque and Post-modern; 7. The Baroque Thesis: Michel Foucault; 8. Un Baroque recit: Gerard Genette; 9. From Baroque emblem to Post-modern Panaramagram: Yury; Lotman and Jacques Derrida; Part Four: Baroque and Postcolonial; 10. A Baroque Conspiracy: Jorge-Luis Borges; 11. Literature, Taxonomy and 'The New World': Severo Sarduy; 12. A Baroque Return: Alejo Carpentier; Conclusion: One or Many Baroques?

Gregg Lambert is Associate Professor in English and Textual Studies at Syracuse University and author of The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

'...in Return of the Baroque, Lambert recuperates associations between the baroque, multiple modernities and an awareness of representation as artifice.'

• Introduction: Why the Baroque? Part One: Renovations of the Seventeenth Century Baroque; 1. Historical Antecedents in Baroque Criticism and Theory; 2. The Baroque Mechanism: Jose-Antonio Maravall; 3. The Baroque Eon: Eugenio d'Ors; Part Two: Baroque and Modern; 4. Baroque and Anti-Baroque: Octavio Paz; 5. The rhetoric of Baroque Temporality: Paul de Man; 6. The Baroque Angel of History: Walter Benjamin; Part Three: Baroque and Post-modern; 7. The Baroque Thesis: Michel Foucault; 8. Un Baroque recit: Gerard Genette; 9. From Baroque emblem to Post-modern Panaramagram: Yury; Lotman and Jacques Derrida; Part Four: Baroque and Postcolonial; 10. A Baroque Conspiracy: Jorge-Luis Borges; 11. Literature, Taxonomy and 'The New World': Severo Sarduy; 12. A Baroque Return: Alejo Carpentier; Conclusion: One or Many Baroques?

Gregg Lambert is Associate Professor in English and Textual Studies at Syracuse University and author of The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

'...in Return of the Baroque, Lambert recuperates associations between the baroque, multiple modernities and an awareness of representation as artifice.'

• Introduction: Why the Baroque? Part One: Renovations of the Seventeenth Century Baroque; 1. Historical Antecedents in Baroque Criticism and Theory; 2. The Baroque Mechanism: Jose-Antonio Maravall; 3. The Baroque Eon: Eugenio d'Ors; Part Two: Baroque and Modern; 4. Baroque and Anti-Baroque: Octavio Paz; 5. The rhetoric of Baroque Temporality: Paul de Man; 6. The Baroque Angel of History: Walter Benjamin; Part Three: Baroque and Post-modern; 7. The Baroque Thesis: Michel Foucault; 8. Un Baroque recit: Gerard Genette; 9. From Baroque emblem to Post-modern Panaramagram: Yury; Lotman and Jacques Derrida; Part Four: Baroque and Postcolonial; 10. A Baroque Conspiracy: Jorge-Luis Borges; 11. Literature, Taxonomy and 'The New World': Severo Sarduy; 12. A Baroque Return: Alejo Carpentier; Conclusion: One or Many Baroques?