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Geographies of Philological Knowledge
Nadia Altschul
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Description for Geographies of Philological Knowledge
Hardcover. Examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andres Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian whose lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative would later become Spain's national epic, "The Poem of the Cid". Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
"Geographies of Philological Knowledge" examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andres Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative that would later become Spain's national epic, "The Poem of the Cid". Nadia R. Altschul combs Bello's study of the poem and finds throughout it evidence of a "coloniality of knowledge." Altschul argues that during the nineteenth century the framework for philological scholarship established in and for core European nations - France, England, and especially ... Read more
"Geographies of Philological Knowledge" examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andres Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian, editor, legal scholar, and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative that would later become Spain's national epic, "The Poem of the Cid". Nadia R. Altschul combs Bello's study of the poem and finds throughout it evidence of a "coloniality of knowledge." Altschul argues that during the nineteenth century the framework for philological scholarship established in and for core European nations - France, England, and especially ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226016214
SKU
V9780226016214
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About Nadia Altschul
Nadia R. Altschul teaches in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. She is coeditor of Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of "the Middle Ages" Outside Europe.
Reviews for Geographies of Philological Knowledge
"Nadia R. Altschul has been responsible for some of the most searching studies of the links between the European premodern past and the colonial enterprise. In her new book, she turns her attention to the Americas and to the central role of Andres Bello in the formation of Latin American cultural identities. The result is a fundamental rethinking of an ... Read more