Territories of History : : Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America / / Sarah H. Beckjord.
Sarah H. Beckjord’s Territories of History explores the vigorous but largely unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In historical works by writers such as Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de Las Casas, and Bernal Díaz...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penn State Romance Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Historical Representation in the Spanish Humanist Context: Juan Luis Vives
- 2 Conjecture and Credibility in the Historia general y natural de las Indias by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
- 3 Vision and Voice: The Historia de las Indias by Bartolomé de Las Casas
- 4 History and Memory: Narrative Perspective in Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index