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The miraculous lie : Lope de Aguirre and the search for El Dorado in the Latin American historical novel / Bart L. Lewis.
Van Pelt Library PQ7082.H57 L49 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Bart L., 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aguirre, Lope de, 1510-1561.
- Historical fiction, Spanish American--History and criticism.
- Historical fiction, Spanish American.
- Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Spanish American fiction.
- Aguirre, Lope de, 1510-1561--In literature.
- Aguirre, Lope de.
- El Dorado--In literature.
- El Dorado.
- South America--History--16th century--Historiography.
- South America.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 184 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2003]
- Contents:
- Lope de Aguirre in Latin American culture : historical figure and literary character
- Why Spaniards dreamed : the golden legend and colonial searches for El Dorado
- The Ursúa/Aguirre expedition as written historical record : fact that will become fiction
- Birth of a caudillo : Uslar Pietri's El camino de El Dorado
- Limited immortality : Aguirre stalks history in Posse's Daimón
- Characterization as historical progression in Otero Silva's Lope de Aguirre, príncipe de la libertad
- Aguirre's dialogue with history in Jorge Enesto Funes' Una lanza por Lope de Aguirre
- A (his)story that will live forever : the supremacy of fiction in Alvarez Sáenz' Crónica de blasfemos
- The eternal pilgrim : Lope de Aguirre in the Latin American novel and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-175) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739104659
- OCLC:
- 51203991
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