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Geographies of philological knowledge : postcoloniality and the Transatlantic national epic /

Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781 & ndash;1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and h...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Altschul, Nadia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Geographies of Philological Knowledge examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781 & ndash;1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative that would later become Spain & rsquo;s national epic, the Poem of the Cid. Nadia R. Altschul combs Bello & rsquo;s study of the poem and finds throughout it evidence of a & ldquo;coloniality of knowledge. & rdquo; Altschul reveals how, during.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226016191
0226016196
1280125942
9781280125942