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• catalog abstract "The discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World is here imaginatively treated as a journey from fantasy to reality, from complicity to rejection, from mythification to criticism. Focusing on certain key firsthand narratives of the Spanish conquest, the author views various journals, letters, and other documents not merely as narratives of facts and events but as literary expressions of the dynamics of the writers' experience: recording the transformation of their perceptions of New World realities and showing the gradual development of a critical consciousness that questions their sense of identity and the validity of European cultural models. The author illuminates the conceptual and aesthetic developments that mark the beginnings of a new literature in the making. Gradually, the aesthetic requirements and canons of Europe are left behind as this new literature begins to convey the new realities of colonial Spanish America that shape the complex poetics of Alonso de Ercilla's great epic poem La Araucana. The book begins with analyses of texts by Christopher Columbus and Hernan Cortes, showing how the discourse of mythification fictionalizes both the New World itself and the nature and meaning of the conquest. Then, as the conquistadors' expeditions increasingly fail disillusionment engenders ideological crisis, questioning, and demythification, as exemplified in Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios. The book concludes by synthesizing the various historical and aesthetic elements that led to the awakening in the conquistadors of a new, divided, and contradicting consciousness, whose first literary flowering was La Araucana.".
• catalog alternative "Discursos narrativos de la conquista. English".
• catalog contributor b3564488.
• catalog coverage "America Discovery and exploration Spanish Historiography.".
• catalog coverage "America Early accounts to 1600 History and criticism.".
• catalog coverage "America In literature.".
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "The discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World is here imaginatively treated as a journey from fantasy to reality, from complicity to rejection, from mythification to criticism. Focusing on certain key firsthand narratives of the Spanish conquest, the author views various journals, letters, and other documents not merely as narratives of facts and events but as literary expressions of the dynamics of the writers' experience: recording the transformation of their perceptions of New World realities and showing the gradual development of a critical consciousness that questions their sense of identity and the validity of European cultural models. The author illuminates the conceptual and aesthetic developments that mark the beginnings of a new literature in the making. Gradually, the aesthetic requirements and canons of Europe are left behind as this new literature begins to convey the new realities of colonial Spanish America that shape the complex poetics of Alonso de Ercilla's great epic poem La Araucana. The book begins with analyses of texts by Christopher Columbus and Hernan Cortes, showing how the discourse of mythification fictionalizes both the New World itself and the nature and meaning of the conquest. Then, as the conquistadors' expeditions increasingly fail disillusionment engenders ideological crisis, questioning, and demythification, as exemplified in Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios. The book concludes by synthesizing the various historical and aesthetic elements that led to the awakening in the conquistadors of a new, divided, and contradicting consciousness, whose first literary flowering was La Araucana.".
• catalog description "pt. I The Discourse of Mythification: Christopher Columbus and the definition of America as booty -- Hernán Cortés and the creation of the model conqueror -- Part II. Demythification and Questioning: From failure to demythification -- The models in crisis -- Part III. A Literary Expression of the Unfolding of a New Consciousness: Alonso de Ercilla and the development of a Spanish American Consciousness.".
• catalog extent "x, 317 p., [14] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0804719772 (alk. paper) :".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng spa".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "America Discovery and exploration Spanish Historiography.".
• catalog spatial "America Early accounts to 1600 History and criticism.".
• catalog spatial "America In literature.".
• catalog subject "860.9/327 20".
• catalog subject "Literature and history.".
• catalog subject "PQ7081 .P3413 1992".
• catalog subject "Spanish American literature To 1800 History and criticism.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I The Discourse of Mythification: Christopher Columbus and the definition of America as booty -- Hernán Cortés and the creation of the model conqueror -- Part II. Demythification and Questioning: From failure to demythification -- The models in crisis -- Part III. A Literary Expression of the Unfolding of a New Consciousness: Alonso de Ercilla and the development of a Spanish American Consciousness.".
• catalog title "Discursos narrativos de la conquista. English".
• catalog title "The armature of conquest : Spanish accounts of the discovery of America, 1492-1589 / Beatriz Pastor Bodmer ; translated by Lydia Longstreth Hunt.".
• catalog type "text".