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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12900286.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.".
- catalog description "Toward a materialist poetics of counter-epic literature -- "So that the rulers might sleep without bad dreams" : imperial ideology and practices -- Liminal identity and polyphonic ideology in indiano drama -- The early modern history play as counter-epic mode : Cervantes's La destrucción de Numancia and Lope de Vega's Arauco domado -- The novelistic history play : Rojas Zorrilla's Numancia diptych and González de Bustos's Los españoles en Chile -- "War and lechery" : La gatomaquia and the burlesque epic.".
- catalog extent "viii, 224 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0271022825 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Penn State studies in Romance literatures".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,".
- catalog subject "862/.051409358 21".
- catalog subject "Historical drama, Spanish History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Imperialism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PQ6121.H5 S56 2003".
- catalog subject "Spanish drama Classical period, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Toward a materialist poetics of counter-epic literature -- "So that the rulers might sleep without bad dreams" : imperial ideology and practices -- Liminal identity and polyphonic ideology in indiano drama -- The early modern history play as counter-epic mode : Cervantes's La destrucción de Numancia and Lope de Vega's Arauco domado -- The novelistic history play : Rojas Zorrilla's Numancia diptych and González de Bustos's Los españoles en Chile -- "War and lechery" : La gatomaquia and the burlesque epic.".
- catalog title "Discourses of empire : counter-epic literature in early modern Spain / Barbara Simerka.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".