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2017, The Literary Encyclopedia
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Genre: Epic, Poetry (any). Country: Spain, Spain.
'Lo más singular así como lo más recomendable que hay en La Araucana es el personaje del autor' Manuel José Quintana
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2020
Introductory study by Emiro Martínez Osorio and Paul Firbas on the reception and criticism of Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-2019), included in the special monographic issue of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 45-1 (2020) also edited by them.
The Literary Encyclopedia, 2017
Poet; Soldier. Active 1569-1589 in America -South Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533-94) is the author of La Araucana, the most widely read and imitated epic of the Spanish Golden Age. Ercilla spent nearly 30 years working on the poem's three volumes, which he published in 1569, 1578, and 1589. Composed in heroic verse, La Araucana narrates the history of colonial warfare between the Spaniards and the Araucanians, a nation of bellicose, nomadic herdsmen living in Arauco, a region in southern Chile. The poem is a hybrid masterpiece that fuses literature, history, and autobiography. Unlike his epic precursors, Ercilla participated in many of the battles that he narrated. In the construction of his poem, he blended narrative strategies and the imitation of scenes and characters from classical epic, the Italian romance, and historiography. Following in the footsteps of the Spanish Renaissance poet Garcilaso de la Vega, Ercilla combined sapientia et fortitudo, and in Part Two he claims that, during the military campaign against the Araucanians, he was "armado siempre y siempre en ordenanza, / la pluma ora en la mano, ora la lanza" [Ever armed, alert each instant, / Pen I held in hand, and spear-shaft] (2.20.24.g-h). Ercilla embodied the Renaissance ideals of the perfect soldier and courtier. The elevation of contemporary historical events to epic proportions and the poet's active participation in the warfare that he narrates render the poem daringly original.
Ethnohistory, 2017
This book studies the historical events of two epic poems written by soldier poets-Ercilla's La Araucana and Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México-from a post-colonial perspective. The Introduction offers an interdisciplinary view of colonial history with attention to those frontier
2016
This book studies the historical events of two epic poems written by soldier poets-Ercilla's La Araucana and Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México-from a post-colonial perspective. The Introduction offers an interdisciplinary view of colonial history with attention to those frontier
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 2019
In this article, I argue against the claim made by various scholars that Ercilla imitates Homer's Iliad in La Araucana. I propose, to the contrary, that the Spanish poet's allusions to the story of the Trojan War derive from his familiarity with the anti-Homeric tradition stemming from Dictys's Ephemeris belli troiani and Dares's De excidio troiae historia. I suggest that these chronicles and their multiple adaptations during the Middle Ages -especially the Historia troyana polimétrica -constitute essential sources for Ercilla's prologue to Part One, the fall of the Araucanian fort in Mataquito in Cantos 13-14, and the architecture of Fitón's cave in Canto 23. Like Ercilla, Dictys and Dares construct their chronicles as historiography, claiming to have participated as eyewitnesses in the events they narrate. At times Ercilla writes from the perspective of the Spaniards, while on other occasions he describes the war from the natives' viewpoint. Through his reading of Dictys and Dares, who offer rival accounts of the Trojan war -the first pro-Trojan, the second pro-Greek -Ercilla found a model for the creation of alternating perspectives of the same historical event.
Hispania, 2018
This article underscores the importance of Canto 7 in the design of Part One as well as its significance in the overall architecture of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569, 1578, 1589). During his depiction of Concepción's destruction, Ercilla collapses the dichotomies established in the poem's opening cantos between the masculine and the feminine, between the Spanish and the Araucanians, and between the conqueror and the invaded. The poet invites the reader to reconsider both Doña Mencía as well as Concepción's fall from overlapping, often contradictory, perspectives. Ercilla rewrites the scene on two occasions in Part One and once again in Part Two. Concepción's destruction can therefore be seen as a prototype repeated throughout La Araucana that endows the epic with greater unity and that suggests unexpected parallels through the juxtaposition of otherwise distant or unrelated episodes. The multiple reversals in Canto 7 correspond to an overarching inversion in the fortunes of warfare in Part One.
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 2023
The subject of this study is Lira Popular in Chile, printed and distributed between 1866 and 1930. It was a publication halfway between literature and journalism, constituting a “differentiated and autonomous communicational practice” that can be considered a primary source through which to know the world visions and representations of the popular sectors in Chile at the turn of the century, beyond distinction worker – massive. The majority research in this area is one-dimensional studies conducted in response to questions the researchers themselves have prioritized. Instead, the question driving this study is: how to access the content of popular printed poetry in a way in which subjects, topics, and the inherent hierarchical relationships emerge from the very own sources? Through a content analysis, the main finding is an internal consistency on concerns and topics in the works of different poets, showing persons of popular origins acting and thinking politically, both within and outside the modern enlightenment, used as a guide to the concept of absent popular culture. The conclusions aim to the manner in which these findings can contribute to a theory popular culture and their subjects in the context of modern Latin America
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 2023
The subject of this study is Lira Popular in Chile, printed and distributed between 1866 and 1930. It was a publication halfway between literature and journalism, constituting a differentiated and autonomous communicational practice that can be considered a primary source through which to know the world visions and representations of the popular sectors in Chile at the turn of the century, beyond distinction worker – massive. The majority research in this area is one-dimensional studies conducted in response to questions the researchers themselves have prioritized. Instead, the question driving this study is: how to access the content of popular printed poetry in a way in which subjects, topics, and the inherent hierarchical relationships emerge from the very own sources? Through a content analysis, the main finding is an internal consis- tency on concerns and topics in the works of different poets, showing persons of popular origins acting and thinking politically, both within and outside the modern enlightenment, used as a guide to the concept of absent popular culture. The conclusions aim to the manner in which these findings can contribute to a theory popular culture and their subjects in the context of modern Latin America
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