Discourses of Empire
Subtitle: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780271022826
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Classical period, 1500-1700; Historical drama, Spanish; History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Spanish drama
Description: "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.