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dc.contributor.authorSimerka, Barbara
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-17T09:47:15Z
dc.date.available2025-04-17T09:47:15Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifierONIX_20250417_9780271031606_4
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100894
dc.description.abstractThe 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. Simerka is drawn to literary texts that questioned or challenged the imperial project of the Hapsburg monarchy in northern Europe and the New World. She notes the variety of critical ideas across the spectrum of diplomatic, juridical, economic, theological, philosophical, and literary writings, and she argues that the presence of such competing discourses challenges the frequent assumption of a univocal, hegemonic culture in Spain during the imperial period. Simerka is especially alert to the ways in which different discourses—hegemonic, residual, emergent—coexist and compete simultaneously in the mediation of power. Discourses of Empire offers fresh insight into the political and intellectual conditions of Hapsburg imperialism, illuminating some rarely examined literary genres, such as burlesque epics, history plays, and indiano drama. Indeed, a special feature of the book is a chapter devoted specifically to indiano literature. Simerka's thorough working knowledge of contemporary literary theory and her inclusion of American, English, and French texts as points of comparison contribute much to current studies of Spanish Golden Age literature.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudies in Romance Literatures
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory
dc.subject.otherLiterature: history and criticism
dc.subject.otherLiterary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
dc.subject.otherLiterary theory
dc.subject.otherEuropean history
dc.titleDiscourses of Empire
dc.title.alternativeCounter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy09c386a3-3703-4269-ad0d-5c31b279590d
oapen.relation.isFundedBy25eaec65-b556-4602-ba6d-ed286e74dde5
oapen.relation.isbn9780271031606
oapen.relation.isbn9780271022826
oapen.imprintPenn State University Press
oapen.pages232
oapen.place.publicationUniversity Park
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