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This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and Spain from 1543 to 1639.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Age of Iberian Epic
Emiro Martinez-Osorio
Part One: Of Gods and Textual Models
1. Design Ingeniously Corrected: Corte-Real,
Os Lusíadas, and the Gods in the Felicissima
Helio J.S. Alves
2. Pagan Nature and the Naturalization of Empire in the New World Epyllions of Bento Teixeira and Silvestre de Balboa
Luis Rodriguez Rincon
3. Lyric as Temptation in Alonso de Ercilla and Torquato Tasso
Mercedes Blanco
Part Two: The Poet as Hero
4. The Many Voices of the Poet: Narrative Polyphony in
Os Lusíadas Matthew Da Mota
5. Eyewitness, Hero, and Poet: Alonso de Ercilla in the Three Parts of
La Araucana
Aude Plagnard
Part Three: Gendered Epics
6. The Voice and the Veil: Pearls, Villancicos, and Dissent in Juan de Castellanos’ Elegy 14
Emiro Martinez-Osorio
7. Domestic Bliss and Strife: Fresia and Caupolicán in Alonso de Ercilla’s
La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s
Arauco Domado
Nicole Delia Legnani
Part Four: New Historiographic and Cartographic Boundaries
8. Christopher Columbus and the Anonymous Pilot in
Carlo famoso by Luis Zapata de Chaves
Jason McCloskey
9. Cartography in Bernardo de Balbuena’s
El Bernardo o victoria de RoncesvallesMartin Zulaica Lopez
Afterword
Mercedes Blanco
Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Emiro Martinez-Osorio and Mercedes Blanco
Summary
This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and Spain from 1543 to 1639.
