Geographies of Philological Knowledge
Author | : Nadia Altschul |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780226016214 |
ISBN-13 | : 0226016218 |
Rating | : 4/5 (218 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Geographies of Philological Knowledge by : Nadia Altschul
Download or read book Geographies of Philological Knowledge written by Nadia Altschul and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the 19th-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative 'The Poem of the Cid'.