Discourses of empire : counter-epic literature in early modern Spain /

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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 novelisti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simerka, Barbara, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2003.
Colección:Penn State studies in Romance literatures.
Temas:
1500-1700
Historical drama, Spanish > History and criticism.
Spanish drama > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Théâtre historique espagnol > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre espagnol > 1500-1700 (Période classique) > Histoire et critique.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
DRAMA > Continental European.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
Historical drama, Spanish.
Spanish drama > Classical period.
Spanish Literature.
Romance Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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