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Discourses of empire : counter-epic literature in early modern Spain / Barbara Simerka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simerka, Barbara, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Penn State studies in Romance literatures.
- Penn State studies in Romance literatures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Spanish drama.
- Historical drama, Spanish--History and criticism.
- Historical drama, Spanish.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 224 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelistic narratives of commercial success. In Discourses of Empire, Barbara Simerka examines the representation of militant Christian imperialism in early modern Spanish literature by focusing on this counter-epic discourse."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Toward a materialist poetics of counter-epic literature
- "So that the rulers might sleep without bad dreams" : imperial ideology and practices
- Liminal identity and polyphonic ideology in indiano drama
- The early modern history play as counter-epic mode : Cervantes's La destrucción de Numancia and Lope de Vega's Arauco domado
- The novelistic history play : Rojas Zorrilla's Numancia diptych and González de Bustos's Los españoles en Chile
- "War and lechery" : La gatomaquia and the burlesque epic.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271052816
- 9780271031606
- 0271031603
- OCLC:
- 1253313974
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