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The Design of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana: Mimesis and Historical Polemics.

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Title/Author:	The Design of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana: Mimesis and Historical Polemics./
Author:	Maxey, Bryce Winter.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	278 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-02A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10927840
ISBN:	9780438194106

The Design of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana: Mimesis and Historical Polemics.
Maxey, Bryce Winter.

The Design of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana: Mimesis and Historical Polemics. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 278 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2018.

This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.

In my dissertation, I provide new insight into the artistic design of each volume of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, a three-part colonial epic published in 1569, 1578, and 1589. I suggest that the Amerindian assembly, Concepcion's destruction, and the abandoned woman constitute three prototypes that Ercilla rewrites throughout the poem. Their recurring echoes juxtapose otherwise distant or unrelated episodes and endow the epic with unity and narrative cyclicality. I argue that Fiten's sphere can be seen as an emblem of the work's cyclical structure and that the poem's form constitutes a reflection on the repetitive, endless nature of the Chilean campaign and on the open shape of history itself, a questioning of imperial triumph. I also explore Ercilla's approach to imitation and its development from Part One to Part Three. Contrary to what most scholars have proposed regarding Homer's influence on La Araucana, I demonstrate that the allusions to Troy derive not from Homer but rather from an alternate Homeric tradition inaugurated by Dares and Dictys and reworked in medieval Spain by the anonymous author of the Historia troyana polimetrica. Moreover, I examine the poetics of Ercilla's appropriation of models from Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Juan de Mena, Ludovico Ariosto, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Luis de Cambes. Ercilla collapses traditional dichotomies by conflating multiple models to depict historical figures-such as Caupolican, Dona Mencia de Nidos, Lautaro, Guacolda, Tegualda, Fiton, Dido, and Fresia-and historical events-such as Caupolican's election, the destruction of Concepcion, the fall of the Araucanian fort at Mataquito, the Battle of Saint Quentin, and the massacre of the natives at Canete. Such radical destabilization in the poet's use of models encourages the reader to reconsider each historical figure from multiple, often contradictory, lenses and to reexamine the war from overlapping perspectives. I also investigate the text's polemical relationship to its historical sources and later historians' diverging reactions to Ercilla's epic. Through the comparison of differing historical accounts and conflicting ideological stances, I trace the emergence of a set of discursive polemics concerning Spain's colonial presence in Chile. Blurring the lines between history and poetry, my dissertation underscores how the poem plays a significant role not only in the literature but also in the history of both Spain and Latin America. The poet's conflicted vision of the Spanish colonial enterprise, including his praise of the indigenous peoples' resistance, has enabled the poem's canonization as Chile's foundational literary work. Rife with tensions and internal contradictions, the complexity of La Araucana vigorously resists critical reduction. Throughout the poem, Ercilla alternates between criticism and admiration of the Spanish and of the Araucanians. If at times he seems to question the imperial enterprise, he can also reinforce it. Furthermore, although one teleological thread constitutes a celebration of the Spanish Empire, a second strain undermines the first, challenging and questioning imperial teleology. La Araucana has recently attained renewed relevance following the violent repression of the Mapuches (the Araucanians) in Chile and Argentina, and my dissertation also addresses the poem's continuous legacy in the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 9780438194106Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

The Design of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana: Mimesis and Historical Polemics.
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