From Modernism To Neo-Baroque: Joyce and Lezama Lima (Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)

This book examiines the historical and intertextual relationship between European modernism and neobaroque Latin American literature by means of a comparative analysis of the works of Jose Lezama Lima and James Joyce. Revising concepts such as influence, imitation, and appropriation, it portrays modernism as a "world" aesthetic rather than a Euro-centred movement.