Mimesis and Empire
Subtitle: The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521801027
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature: Classics; History and criticism; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; To 1800; Spanish literature; Mimesis in literature; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Classical period, 1500-1700; Spanish American literature
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.