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1 online resource (viii, 164 pages) |
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Campos ibéricos: Bucknell studies in Iberian literatures and cultures |
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Campos Ibéricos
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| Contents |
Turbulent waters : shipwreck in María de Zayas's "Tarde llega el desengaño" / Carrie L. Ruiz -- Two small and two large imperial shipwrecks by Miguel de Cervantes and Luis de Góngora / Julio Baena -- The reader as castaway : problematics of reading Soledades by Luis de Góngora / Elena Rodríguez-Guridi -- On moral truth and the controversy over the Amerindians: the Relación (1542), by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / Natalio Ohanna -- The discourse of poverty in Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios / Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla -- Shipwreck, exile, and political critique in the Comedia de Fernán Méndez Pinto (1631) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez / Carmen Hsu -- The Manila galleon shipwrecks: writing crisis and decline in the Spanish global empire / Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez -- The shipwreck of the Manila galleon San Felipe in seventeenth-century histories and accounts on Japan / Noemí Martín Santo |
| Summary |
"Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck's symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-153) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shipwrecks in literature.
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Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Spanish literature -- Social aspects -- 16th century
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Spanish literature -- Social aspects -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Shipwrecks in literature
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Spanish literature -- Classical period
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Spanish literature -- Social aspects
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essays.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Essays
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Essays.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Essais.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ruiz, Carrie L., editor.
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Rodríguez-Guridi, Elena, editor.
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Blackmore, Josiah, 1959- writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781684483747 |
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1684483743 |
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9781684483723 |
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1684483727 |
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9781684483730 |
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1684483735 |
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