New world encounters /
New world encounters /
edited by Stephen Greenblatt.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 344 pages) : illustrations
- Representations books ; 6 .
- Representations books ; 6. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English.
9780520913103 (electronic bk.) 0520913108 (electronic bk.) 0585081557 (electronic bk.) 9780585081557 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
América--Obras anteriores a 1600--Historia y crítica.
América--Descubrimiento y exploraciones--Fuentes.
HISTORY--Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY.
Discoveries in geography.
Entdeckung
Indianen.
Conquistadores.
Ontdekkingsreizen.
Letterkunde.
Littérature anglaise--Thèmes, motifs.--16e siècle
Littérature anglaise--Thèmes, motifs.--17e siècle
Littérature et histoire.
Utopies--Dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
America--History and criticism.--Early accounts to 1600
America--Discovery and exploration--Sources.
Amérique--Histoire et critique.--Récits avant 1600
America.
Amerika
Amérique--Découverte et exploration--Sources.
Amérique--Ouvrages avant 1800--Histoire et critique.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works.
Sources.
E141 / .N48 1993eb
970.01
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English.
9780520913103 (electronic bk.) 0520913108 (electronic bk.) 0585081557 (electronic bk.) 9780585081557 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
América--Obras anteriores a 1600--Historia y crítica.
América--Descubrimiento y exploraciones--Fuentes.
HISTORY--Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY.
Discoveries in geography.
Entdeckung
Indianen.
Conquistadores.
Ontdekkingsreizen.
Letterkunde.
Littérature anglaise--Thèmes, motifs.--16e siècle
Littérature anglaise--Thèmes, motifs.--17e siècle
Littérature et histoire.
Utopies--Dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
America--History and criticism.--Early accounts to 1600
America--Discovery and exploration--Sources.
Amérique--Histoire et critique.--Récits avant 1600
America.
Amerika
Amérique--Découverte et exploration--Sources.
Amérique--Ouvrages avant 1800--Histoire et critique.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works.
Sources.
E141 / .N48 1993eb
970.01