Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain

Robert L. Fiore, Bárbara Simerka

Hispania · 2005 · 27 citations · 0 references

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Contents Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Toward a Materialist Poetics of Counter-Epic Literature 2. So That the Rulers Might Sleep Without Bad Dreams: Imperial Ideology and Practices 3. Liminal Identity and Polyphonic Ideology in Indiano Drama 4. The Early Modern History Play as Counter-Epic Mode: Cervantes's La destruccion de Numancia and Lope de Vega's Arauco domado 5. The Novelistic History Play: Rojas Zorrilla's Numancia Diptych and Gonzalez de Bustos's Los espanoles en Chile 6. War and Lechery: La gatomaquia and the Burlesque Epic 7. Conclusions Works Cited Index