UID:
edocfu_9959227591002883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 224 p. )
ISBN:
0-271-03160-3
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9780271052816
Series Statement:
Penn State studies in Romance literatures
Uniform Title:
Project Muse UPCC books
Content:
"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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-271-02282-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780271031606
