Mimesis and Empire
Subtitle: The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780521543507
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-17; Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism
First sentence: As the craze for romances of chivalry and other imaginative literature took hold of readers in sixteenth-century Spain, the popularity of such fictions generated a spate of moralist criticisms attacking them for their lies and impropriety.