Book contents
- A History of Chilean Literature
- A History of Chilean Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
- Chapter 1 The Evolving Image of the Araucanía and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia’s Cartas de Relación and Vivar’s Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile
- Chapter 2 Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado in the National Imaginary
- Chapter 3 Writing while Walking: Alonso Ovalle and the Construction of the World’s End Narrative in An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile (1646)
- Chapter 4 Empathy with the Mapuche
- Chapter 5 Subalterns Find Their Voice
- Part II Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness
- Part III Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
- Index
- References
Chapter 1 - The Evolving Image of the Araucanía and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia’s Cartas de Relación and Vivar’s Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile
from Part I - Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2021
- A History of Chilean Literature
- A History of Chilean Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters
- Chapter 1 The Evolving Image of the Araucanía and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia’s Cartas de Relación and Vivar’s Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile
- Chapter 2 Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado in the National Imaginary
- Chapter 3 Writing while Walking: Alonso Ovalle and the Construction of the World’s End Narrative in An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile (1646)
- Chapter 4 Empathy with the Mapuche
- Chapter 5 Subalterns Find Their Voice
- Part II Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness
- Part III Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
- Index
- References
Summary
In his Tropics of Discourse, Hayden White recalls Northrop Frye’s arguments regarding the structure of poetic fictions. According to Frye, there are a limited number of ways in which a storyline can be set in motion: comedy, tragedy, romance, epic, or satire. White, however, extends Frye’s ideas to history: a historical narrative will also inevitably take the shape of one of these genres.
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- A History of Chilean Literature , pp. 25 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021