Systematization of ideas about Latin American Baroque in the works of Emilio Carilla.

The article is dedicated to the contribution of Argentine philologist Emilio Carilla in the systematization of baroque concepts in Latin America: it examines the influence of the Dominican cultural scholar Pedro Enriquez Ureña on him, as well as Carilla's perception of the emerging baroque theories in Latin America, through which their authors clarified the specificity of the Latin American world. Between the publication of Carilla's work "Baroque Literature and the Colonial Environment" (1969) and his next book, only three years passed, but during this time the very field of representations of baroque in Latin America radically changed. While in his first book Carilla attempted to build a system of representations of Latin American baroque, starting from the baroque as a historical style, just three years later, considering the growing popularity of baroque concepts that interpreted baroque as a timeless aesthetic phenomenon, such systematization seemed incomplete. In his book "Baroque Literature in Latin America" (1972), the Argentine scholar divided Latin American authors associated with baroque aesthetics into two conditional groups: the first included writers who perceived baroque as a local phenomenon linked to the colonial period, while the second consisted of those who saw baroque as a special, timeless phenomenon that played a key role in the cultural formation of Latin America. In writing this article, the author based the work on the use of cultural-historical and comparative methods. The scientific novelty of this article lies in the analysis of the works of the little-known Argentine literary critic Emilia Carilla in the context of the growing interest in ideas related to the reinterpretation of representations of baroque phenomena in the history of literature. The novelty of Carilla's approach was that in his works related to baroque, he attempted to develop the views of his teacher Pedro Enriquez Ureña and connect them with baroque theories that considered baroque as the foundational basis for the cultural formation of Latin America. Based on Carilla's works, conclusions can be drawn about the great diversity of approaches to the problem of baroque in Latin America. The value of Carilla's works also lies in the fact that, not being an apologist for any baroque theory, he sought to provide a detailed overview of them.

P. Enriquez Ureña, Emilio Carilla, J. Lesama Lima, A. Carpentier, periodisation of baroque concepts, Latin American literature, The New World, The colonial period, a universal phenomenon, ideas about the Baroque