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

Title
Discourses of empire : counter-epic literature in early modern Spain / Barbara Simerka.
Author
Simerka, Barbara, 1957-
Publication
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2003.

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viii, 224 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Penn State studies in Romance literatures
Subject
  • Historical drama, Spanish > History and criticism
  • Spanish drama > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Imperialism in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 03-12176
ISBN
0271022825 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003004688
OCLC
52091887
Author
Simerka, Barbara, 1957-
Title
Discourses of empire : counter-epic literature in early modern Spain / Barbara Simerka.
Imprint
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2003.
Series
Penn State studies in Romance literatures
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.
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JFE 03-12176
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