{"product_id":"the-war-trumpet-9781487546328","title":"The War Trumpet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe epic poems written during the rise of Portugal and Spain on the global stage often dealt with topics quite unimaginable to the likes of Virgil or Homer. These poems reveal the astounding opportunities for upward social mobility and self-promotion afforded by broader access to print and the vast amount of knowledge and material wealth accrued through maritime exploration. Iberian poets of the period were quite cognizant of their ventures into uncharted territory, and that awareness informed their literary journeys.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe War Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e features nine substantial essays that expand our understanding of Iberian Renaissance epic poetry by posing questions seldom raised in relation to poems such as \u003ci\u003eLa Araucana\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOs Lusíadas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCarlo famoso\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEl Bernardo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArauco Domado, Espejo de paciencia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFelicissima Victoria\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Particularly compelling are questions concerned with early modern understandings of the natural world, the prac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments List of Illustrations   Introduction: The Age of Iberian Epic Emiro Martinez-Osorio   Part One: Of Gods and Textual Models   1. Design Ingeniously Corrected: Corte-Real, Os Lusíadas, and the Gods in the Felicissima Helio J.S. Alves   2. Pagan Nature and the Naturalization of Empire in the New World Epyllions of Bento Teixeira and Silvestre de Balboa Luis Rodriguez Rincon   3. Lyric as Temptation in Alonso de Ercilla and Torquato Tasso Mercedes Blanco   Part Two: The Poet as Hero   4. The Many Voices of the Poet: Narrative Polyphony in Os Lusíadas  Matthew Da Mota   5. Eyewitness, Hero, and Poet: Alonso de Ercilla in the Three Parts of La Araucana Aude Plagnard   Part Three: Gendered Epics   6. The Voice and the Veil: Pearls, Villancicos, and Dissent in Juan de Castellanos’ Elegy 14 Emiro Martinez-Osorio   7. Domestic Bliss and Strife: Fresia and Caupolicán in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco Domado Nicole Delia Legnani   Part Four: New Historiographic and Cartographic Boundaries   8. Christopher Columbus and the Anonymous Pilot in Carlo famoso by Luis Zapata de Chaves Jason McCloskey    9. Cartography in Bernardo de Balbuena’s El Bernardo o victoria de Roncesvalles Martin Zulaica Lopez   Afterword Mercedes Blanco   Contributors  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409165427031,"sku":"9781487546328","price":47.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487546328.jpg?v=1730505716","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-war-trumpet-9781487546328","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}