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 LusÃadas, the epic celebration of early Portuguese maritime expansion in the Indian Ocean and beyond.Delving into the epic traditions of the Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance periods, Nicolopulos outlines practices of imitation within the two poems, focusing specifically on La Araucana's employment of epic models. Having made powerful connections to Ercilla's literary and critical predecessors, Nicolopulos demonstrates that the contemporaneous publication of Os LusÃadas further affected the content and presentation of La Araucana. In so doing, he elucidates the rivalries poetic, political, commercial between Spain and Portugal during this age of expansion. 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.
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An admirable piece of scholarship. Nicolopulos's history of these poems imperialist projects from their inception to recent critical interpretations is one fully as engrossing as the poems themselves. --Anne J. Cruz, University of California, Irvine
This book is a meticulous and erudite study of Alonso de Ercilla's strategic use of the prestige of Classical and Renaissance texts in the epic poem La Araucana to construct a poetics that inscribes the poet s own ventures in colonial Chile within a world-encompassing imperial design commensurate with the imperial pretensions of his king, Philip II. --Luis Fernando Restrepo, Sixteenth Century Journal
From all points of analysis, The Poetics of Empire constitutes a commendable work of serious scholarship that skillfully vehicles a new appreciation of Renaissance practices of imitation. --Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, South Atlantic Review
This book is a meticulous and erudite study of Alonso de Ercilla's strategic use of the prestige of Classical and Renaissance texts in the epic poem La Araucana to construct a poetics that inscribes the poet s own ventures in colonial Chile within a world-encompassing imperial design commensurate with the imperial pretensions of his king, Philip II. --Luis Fernando Restrepo, Sixteenth Century Journal
From all points of analysis, The Poetics of Empire constitutes a commendable work of serious scholarship that skillfully vehicles a new appreciation of Renaissance practices of imitation. --Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, South Atlantic Review
About the Author
James Nicolopulos is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin. He collaborated with Chris Strachwitz on Lydia Mendoza: A Family Autobiography (Arte Publico 1993) and has published his work in the journal Lucero and in Aspects on Medieval and Renaissance Translation in the Iberian Peninsula (ed. Roxana Recio, Edwin Mellen Press, 1994)
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Fernán Núñez, López de Gómara, Hernán Núñez, Pulmón de Linçeo, Gonçalo Pérez, necromantic imitation, literary necromancy, amphibious viper, lunar poison, fetu genuit natura sinistro, nomina pestes, ekphrastic prophecy, cosmic icon, imitative praxis, mundus significans, epic prophecy, thousand other nameless things, reproductive imitation, principal subtext, eclectic imitation, heuristic imitation, literary storm, imagine mundi, common subtext, imitative practice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Laberinto de Fortuna, The Poetics of Empire, Juan de Mena, Lida de Malkiel, Libro de Alexandre, Ercilla's Literary Necromancy, Fitón's Cave, Plotting Imperial Rivalry, Ercilla's Eclectic Web of Epic Prophecy, The Light of Lusfadas, Alvaro de Luna, Saint Isidore, Walter of Châtillon, Thomas Greene, Pereira da Silva, Saint Quentin, Middle Ages, New World, Faerie Queene, King Philip, Where Camoens, Red Sea, Calvete de la Estrella, Divine Providence, Alan of Lille Browse Sample Pages:
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Fernán Núñez, López de Gómara, Hernán Núñez, Pulmón de Linçeo, Gonçalo Pérez, necromantic imitation, literary necromancy, amphibious viper, lunar poison, fetu genuit natura sinistro, nomina pestes, ekphrastic prophecy, cosmic icon, imitative praxis, mundus significans, epic prophecy, thousand other nameless things, reproductive imitation, principal subtext, eclectic imitation, heuristic imitation, literary storm, imagine mundi, common subtext, imitative practice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Laberinto de Fortuna, The Poetics of Empire, Juan de Mena, Lida de Malkiel, Libro de Alexandre, Ercilla's Literary Necromancy, Fitón's Cave, Plotting Imperial Rivalry, Ercilla's Eclectic Web of Epic Prophecy, The Light of Lusfadas, Alvaro de Luna, Saint Isidore, Walter of Châtillon, Thomas Greene, Pereira da Silva, Saint Quentin, Middle Ages, New World, Faerie Queene, King Philip, Where Camoens, Red Sea, Calvete de la Estrella, Divine Providence, Alan of Lille Browse Sample Pages:
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