REV - RILCE - 2020, 36.1
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- Sátira vs. épica: la respuesta de "La victoria naval peruntina" al "Arauco domado" de Pedro de Oña(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Segas, L. (Lise)This article studies the relationship between an anonymous epic satirical poem, La victoria naval peruntina, attributed to Mateo Rosas de Oquendo, and the heroic poem Arauco domado by Pedro de Oña. It contextualizes the historical substance of both poems in the beginning of the maritime war against privateers in the Pacific Ocean. Then focusing on the intertextual and controversial connexions the satire established with Oña’s poem. This analysis leads to consider the dialogue between satire and epic poetry, thanks to Pascal Debailly’s works, and to examine how the privateer character offers narrative and moral potentialities in order to criticize viceregal elites. The satirical anger reveals the complexity and heterogeneity of the colonial discourse using the privateers raids as a polemical question.
- Furor y valor: traslaciones épicas desde Lucano hasta Anchieta y Ercilla(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Welge, J. (Jobst)The following essay is based on a comparative discussion of one of the first colonial epics, De Gestis Mendi de Sa (a Neo-Latin work written by the Brazilian Jesuit José de Anchieta) with the much more well-known epic about early colonial Chile, La Aracaucana, by Ercilla. Following the seminal work on classical/early modern epic by David Quint, the essay outlines how the two epics about military conflicts in Latin America are related to the generic conventions of the classical paradigms, notably Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Pharsalia. To varying degrees, both epics blend the imperial rhetoric of Virgil with the more critical language of Lucan that allows for a certain amount of sympathy with the side of the enemy. Specifically, I argue that the indigenous populations of Brazil and Chile are poetically represented with categories of both savagery and nobility –thus achieving different varieties of generic adaptation and of ideological ambivalence.
- "La Araucana" y la “Nueva novela histórica”(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Serna-Arnaiz, M. (Mercedes)In the present essay we assess the narratives of the conquest, and specifically La Araucana, in the light of Aínsa and Menton’s concept of the “New Historical Novel”. We show that this epic presents many features that characterize their definition. We conclude that if the genre of the historical novel starts from the common basis of the epic, La Araucana is the work that best reflects this transition; it no longer belongs exclusively to history or to the novel, but is one of the earliest historical novels of literature –if not the earliest– written in Spanish.
- Heroicidad, conquista y el Nuevo Mundo rioplatense. El vacío heroico en el poema épico "La Argentina" (1602) de Martín del Barco Centenera(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Brunke, D. (Dirk)La Argentina (1602) is the one and only Renaissance epic poem from the River Plate. The author Martín del Barco Centenera provides with his epic poem one of the foundational texts of this region. Nevertheless, it does not belong to the traditional corpus of epic texts from the Siglo de Oro; an ever-increasing number of studies have been published only recently. Although this epic-heroic poem lacks the figure of a central hero, the decision to write an epic poem is not accidental. By means of a rhetorical and semantic analysis, this paper argues that the lack of epic heroism (vacío heroico) generates potential to discuss the question of heroism in times of the conquest. Barco Centenera wittingly combines this discourse with the topos of the marvellous of the New World. An analysis of the narrative discourse with a special focus on its reflexivity complements the argument.
- Lo bucólico y lo épico en el poema de Fernando de Valverde: una Virgen pastora y guerrera en tierras peruanas(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Alvarado-Teodorika, T. (Tatiana)The Augustinian friar Fernando de Valverde’s sacred poem, Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Copacabana del Perú, is a composition dedicated to the Virgin of Copacabana that has received little critical attention and is thus less well known than other contemporary poetic works, such as those written by Alonso Ramos Gavilán or Antonio de la Calancha. It is a rather special poem not only because it includes, in its early pages, the first signed engraving from vice-royal Peru, but also because of the hybrid nature of its composition. The present work seeks to set out some characteristics that allow us to identify bucolic and epic elements that can be found in this religious poem.
- Bernardo de Balbuena: a vueltas con la épica(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Barrera, T. (Trinidad)Given the need for critical attention to a corpus of considerable writings that includes works of rhetoric and poetics and specific reflections on genres, of short length and as a defense of what is going to be written, this article deals with the prologue to an epic poem, Bernardo, o Victoria de Roncesvalles by Bernardo de Balbuena, in which the poetical reflection applied to the epic genre is appreciated.
- Migración y transculturación del tópico del león reverente y agradecido en la literatura fundacional rioplatense de Ruy Díaz de Guzmán(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Kruse, E. (Elisabeth)In the context of migration and globalization of the Hispanic culture, and through it, of the most persistent myths and topics of European civilization, we find the work of the mestizo asunceno Ruy Díaz de Guzmán Irala. The inclusion of the topic of the reverent and grateful lion will undergo a process of transculturation in the new Hispanic space and will be adapted to the historical circumstances, in which the confrontation with the other –represented by the indigenous people– reigns. We will compare the Hispanic-American text with El libro de los ejemplos by Clemente Sánchez de Vercial and Corónica del Çid Ruy Díaz, among others. The recontextualization of this topic in the Argentine pampas will serve as a means to exalt the Spanish feat in the Río de la Plata area and the reintegration in the new geographic and social space will enable the depiction of a dichotomic vision (civilization and barbarism) imbued with a continuous tension.
- Presentación: El género épico entre Europa y América: poéticas, ideologías y prácticas culturales(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Béreiziat-Lang, S. (Stephanie); Ortiz-Gambetta, E. (Eugenia)
- “Por los grados la tierra demarcando”: una relectura de la geografía poética de "La Araucana"(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Valero-Juan, E. (Eva)The study of the geographic perspective of La Araucana, in connection with the visions of nature, is a subject analyzed in critical works from different angles. Whether focusing on geographic data transmuted into epic geographies, or focusing on the well-known duality in the poetizations of nature (paradisiacal or infernal), these studies envision the spatial and ideological procedures with which La Araucana stands as a paradigmatic work for the construction of the literary geography born in the texts about discovery. This article realizes a new development of this vision with the relevant complement provided by the “Geographic Index” created by José Toribio Medina in his “Centennial Edition”, in which it is evident that Ercilla named the most diverse places on the planet so that Chile, “in the famous Antarctic region”, was appearing on the world map that the index draws.
- Elementos léxicos y botánicos de la cornucopia tropical en "Espejo de paciencia" de Silvestre de Balboa(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2019) Marrero-Fente, R. (Raúl)This article examines the lexical and botanical elements of the catalog of plants, flowers and vegetables of Espejo de paciencia by Silvestre de Balboa. The description of the flora follows a model tradition that seeks to renew the description of the ideal landscape from the genre of classical bucolic eclogue, transformed by the Renaissance eclogue. Among the most significant changes appear the use of indigenous lexicons and cumulative descriptions, which by their reiteration, seek to insist on the abundance and richness of Cuban nature.