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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XV , n° 1, Giugno 1997 ( Contributi ) pag. 99-120
POSTMODERNISM AND THE USED-UPNESS OF TITLES:
A NEO-BAROQUE DILEMMA
GIANCARLO MAIORINO
Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana
But, don Miguel, the optimism, the innocence, the aura of possibility you experienced have been largely drained away, and the universe is closing in on us again. Like you, we, too, seem to be standing at the end of one age and on the threshold of another. We, too, have been brought into a blind alley by the critics and analysts; we, too, suffer from a "literature of exhaustion".
(Robert Coover)

In the Preface to A Universal History of Infamy (Historia universal de la infamia) (1935), Jorge Luís Borges defines baroque as "that style which deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) all its possibilities and which borders on its own parody"1. We read about a poetics that has reached a final stage. But Borges felt compelled to add a section entitled "Etcetera", which proved that the baroque style could not be exhausted so easily2. [...]
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