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

Author/creator Simerka, Barbara, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2003.
Descriptionviii, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPenn State studies in romance literatures
Penn State studies in Romance literatures. ^A276204
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.
LCCN 2003004688
ISBN0271022825 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ6121.H5 S56 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold