The Poetics of Empire in the Indies
Subtitle: Prophecy and Imitation in LA Araucana and OS Lusiadas (Penn State Series in Romance Literature)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780271019901
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1500 to c 1600; Spanish Poetry; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Poetry; Spanish; Literature: Classics; Indian Ocean; Portugal; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese; 1524?-1580; 1533-1594; 1533-1594.; Araucana; Camoes, Luis de,; Ercilla y Zuniga, Alonso de,; Ercilla y Zâuäniga, Alonso de,; Imitation in literature; Prophecy in literature
Description: "In The Poetics of Empire in the Indies, James Nicolopulos investigates literary representations of sixteenth-century Iberian colonialism and imperialism by analyzing Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, a narrative poem that recounts the initial phases of the Spanish conquest of Chile in the mid-sixteenth century, and Luis de Camoens's Os Lusiadas, the epic celebration of early Portuguese maritime expansion in the Indian Ocean and beyond.".

"An Investigation into imitation and representation in colonial texts, The Poetics of Empire in the Indies offers new connections between two early literary representations of Iberian imperialism."--BOOK JACKET.