Geographies of Philological Knowledge - Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic

Zusammenfassung Examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andres Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian whose lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative would later become Spain's national epic, "The Poem of the Cid".

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• Authors: Nadia Altschul, Nadia R. Altschul
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780226016214
• ISBN: 978-0-226-01621-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Spanish, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval