Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain

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I n d e x 217 Alba, duke of, 18, 35–36 Albrecht, Jane, 66–67 Alexander VI, 29 Alonso de Herrera, Gabriel, 47–48 Amazonas en las Indias (Tirso de Molina), 44–45 anachronisms, 116–17 Anatomy of Criticism (Frye), 8 Antonucci, Fausta, 94, 133, 137 Antwerp, sack of, 18 Araucana, 19–20 La Araucana (Ercilla), 14, 78, 120, 146, 201 Arauco domado (Lope de Vega) Biobío River boundary and, 22–23 composition and performance of, 120 cost of war in, 114 critical attention to, 91–92, 93–95 critique of military in, 96 demonization of Other in, 123–24 diplomacy in, 110–11 historical inscription in, 84–86 humanization of Other in, 119–21 human suffering in, 113–15 juxtaposition of genre in, 87, 88, 89, 96, 125, 127–28 nostalgia in, 85–86 perspectives on imperialism in, 106–9 Providence in, 81 representation of Spanish in, 108–9 Arcadia (Sydney), 164 Arellano Ayuso, Ignacio, 178–79 Arenal, Electa, 14 Ariosto, Ludovico, Orlando Furioso, 130, 197 aristocracy. See nobility Armada, 19 armas y letras pamphlets, 34–35 assimilation, 32–33 Ávila, Gaspar de, 27 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 165, 199–200 Ball, Robert, 162–63 barbarians, beneficent civilization of, 25, 96 Barnard, Mary, 163, 178 Battle of the Frogs and Mice (Homer), 165, 175 Bénichou, Paul, 182 Bennett, Tony, 5, 9, 163 Bergmann, Emilie, 89 Black Legend, 83, 137 Boriaud, Jean-Yves, 178 bourgeois discourse, 200 Boyden, James, 35–36 Breda, capture of, 20 Brownlee, Marina, 3 burlesque epic. See also Don Quijote (Cervantes); La gatomaquia (Lope de Vega); Quevedo, Francisco de description of, 166 in England, 185–91 in France, 182–85 gross physiological references in, 169, 171, 173–74, 184–85, 197 hegemony and reception of, 178–79 marginalization of, 164, 199–200 overview of, 10, 161–62 parody and, 165–66 Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez, 42 Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 84, 93, 164 Canavaggio, Jean, 88 Cañete, marquis of, 22 cannibalism, 122, 123 Cano, Melchor, 27 Cantar del mío Cid, 168 Carlos Famoso (Zapata), 166 Cascardi, Anthony, 1–2, 5, 7, 79, 127 Cecil, Robert, 186 La celosa de sí misma (Tirso de Molina), 51–54, 70, 72, 73–74 Ceriol, Furió, 6, 35 Cervantes, Miguel de. See also La destrucción de Numancia (Cervantes); Don Quijote (Cervantes) Persiles, 199 Viaje al Parnaso, 164 Cervantes, Raphael, and the Classics (de Armas), 88 Charles V, 24, 25, 36 Chile, 21–23. See also Arauco domado (Lope de Vega); Los españoles en Chile (González de Bustos) Christianity and empire, 28, 108–9 The Civile Wars (Drayton), 164 Clarke, Larry, 185–86 Coe, Ada M., 132 Cohen, Ralph, 10, 15 n. 9 Colomb, Gregory, 6, 161, 198–99 comedia de capa y espada, 72–73, 146 comedias cross-dressed heroines in, 142 location of, 43–44 misunderstandings in, 57 subplots typical of, 144–45 villano and cortesano in, 46–47 Conchado, Diana, 164–66, 178 Contag, Kimberly, 178 converso, conflation of indiano and, 45, 70 cortesano character, 46, 53–54, 60 cost of war, portrayal of, 98–99, 114 counter-epic as denaturalization of power relations, 16 emergence of, 164–65 in France and England, 182–91 marginalization of physical bravery in, 105 materialist, “epochal” analysis of, 1–2, 4, 5–6, 13, 77–78 meaning of term, 4 novel and, 198–202 strategies of, 129–30 counter-generic text and literary mimesis, 23 The Country and the City (Williams), 46–47 courtier, 2, 61 courtly system, critique of, 56–57 courtship, vulgarization and demystification of, 187–89 Covarrubias, Diego, 29 Cox, John, 80 criollo, 39–40 Culler, Jonathan, 13 Culture and Imperialism (Said), 40–41 Cyrano de Bergerac, 178 Daalder, Joost, 62 d’Aubigné, Les Tragiques, 14 Davies, Gareth, 43 de Armas, Frederick, 23, 88, 89, 90, 92–93, 122 defamiliarization model, 13–14 La destrucción de Numancia (Cervantes) classical views in, 23 collective self-destruction in, 82–83, 113, 123 cost of war in, 98–99 critical attention to, 87–91 critique of military in, 96, 99, 100–101 demonization of Other in, 122–23 diplomacy in, 110 historical inscription in, 82–83 historical writing in, 83–84 humanization of Other in, 116–19 human suffering in, 31, 101–2, 111–13 ideology and closure in, 125–26 imperialist discourses in, 92–93 justification for rebellion in, 102–4 juxtaposition of genre in, 87, 88, 89, 96, 126–28 legitimacy of wars of imperialism theme in, 97...