New world encounters
Title:
New world encounters
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Stephen Greenblatt.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 344 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:
9780520913103
9780585081557
Series:
Abstract:
The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was ""the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it."" Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and American peoples. This collection of essays, encompassing history, literary criticism, art history, and anthropology, offers a fresh and inno.
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Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author:
Contents:
Christopher Columbus's "Letter to the Sovereigns": announcing the discovery / Margarita Zamora -- "Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty": Cortes and the conquest of Mexico / Inga Clendinnen -- The negotiation of fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios / Rolena Adorno -- Ius et Factum: text and experience in the writings of Bartolome de Las Casas / Anthony Pagden -- Demons, imagination, and the Incas / Sabine MacCormack -- The philosopher's breviary: Jean de Lery in the enlightenment / Frank Lestringant -- The aesthetics of conquest: Aztec poetry before and after Cortes / David Damrosch -- Dancing and the sacred in the Andes: from the Taqui-Oncoy to Rasu-Niti / Sara Castro-Klaren -- The work of gender in the discourse of discovery / Louis Montrose -- Ralegh's fugitive gold: reference and deferral in The Discoverie of Guiana / Mary C. Fuller -- Voices of resistance: the epic curse and Camoes's Adamastor / David Quint -- Elizabethan tobacco / Jeffrey Knapp -- Epilogue: Michel de Certeau's heterology and the new world / Luce Giard -- Travel narratives of the French to Brazil: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Michel De Certeau.
Language:
English.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.