The baroque in the late works of Alejo Carpentier
type: CreativeWork
description: "There is, as Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria has noted an ""unstable core"" or a ""radical and pervasive discord at the center of Carpentier's production"" (The Pilgrim at Home 17). In this study, we focus on the notion of instability to approach the baroque. This style in Carpentier's work represents the tension between two modes of signification which produce narrative excess. While it appears that this instability is unconscious in the early works, it is argued that there is a conscious effort in the late works to exploit and revel in discursive instability."
abstract: "There is, as Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria has noted an ""unstable core"" or a ""radical and pervasive discord at the center of Carpentier's production"" (The Pilgrim at Home 17). In this study, we focus on the notion of instability to approach the baroque. This style in Carpentier's work represents the tension between two modes of signification which produce narrative excess. While it appears that this instability is unconscious in the early works, it is argued that there is a conscious effort in the late works to exploit and revel in discursive instability."
author: Pancrazio, James J.
language: eng
keywords: Biography, Literature, Latin American, Literature, Caribbean
date published: 2011-05-07T14:07:41Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:25:21Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23256