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This collection of original essays offers new ways of understanding the production of epic poetry in Portugal and Spain from 1543 to 1639. The 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. The War Trumpet features nine substantial essays that expand our understanding of Iberian Renaissance epic poetry by posing questions seldom raised in relation to poems such as La Araucana, Os Lusadas, Carlo famoso, El Bernardo, Arauco Domado, Espejo de paciencia, and Felicissima Victoria, among others. Particularly compelling are questions concerned with early modern understandings of the natural world, the practice of poetic imitation, the discipline of cartography, or the reception of Petrarchism in the newly established viceroyalties of the New World. Fostering a greater appreciation of the intersection between poetry, war, and exploration, The War Trumpet sheds light on the transformative changes that took place during the period of Iberian expansion.

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"""This collection presents a fresh and lasting contribution to the study of Iberian epic. The War Trumpet overcomes longstanding suppositions of Iberian belatedness with respect to literary advances in the early modern era, considering epic poetry in relation to maritime exploration, scientific inquiry, and proto-modern tactics for warfare.""--Elizabeth R. Wright, Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Georgia ""The War Trumpet is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of Iberian epic studies that has made possible the task of revising the history of colonialism in the Americas. By making new ideas available to scholars and to readers in general, this collection gives attention to the cultural production of Iberian authors at several historical moments, while also offering unique insight into the models of colonization in diverse geographical areas.""--Raúl Marrero-Fente, Professor of Spanish and Law, University of Minnesota and author of Poesía épica colonial del siglo XVI. Historia, teoría y práctica"

The War Trumpet is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of Iberian epic studies that has made possible the task of revising the history of colonialism in the Americas. By making new ideas available to scholars and to readers in general, this collection gives attention to the cultural production of Iberian authors at several historical moments, while also offering unique insight into the models of colonization in diverse geographical areas. - Raul Marrero-Fente, Professor of Spanish and Law, University of Minnesota and author of Poesia epica colonial del siglo XVI. Historia, teoria y practica This collection presents a fresh and lasting contribution to the study of Iberian epic. The War Trumpet overcomes longstanding suppositions of Iberian belatedness with respect to literary advances in the early modern era, considering epic poetry in relation to maritime exploration, scientific inquiry, and proto-modern tactics for warfare. - Elizabeth R. Wright, Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Georgia

"""The War Trumpet is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of Iberian epic studies that has made possible the task of revising the history of colonialism in the Americas. By making new ideas available to scholars and to readers in general, this collection gives attention to the cultural production of Iberian authors at several historical moments, while also offering unique insight into the models of colonization in diverse geographical areas."" - Raúl Marrero-Fente, Professor of Spanish and Law, University of Minnesota and author of Poesía épica colonial del siglo XVI. Historia, teoría y práctica ""This collection presents a fresh and lasting contribution to the study of Iberian epic. The War Trumpet overcomes longstanding suppositions of Iberian belatedness with respect to literary advances in the early modern era, considering epic poetry in relation to maritime exploration, scientific inquiry, and proto-modern tactics for warfare."" - Elizabeth R. Wright, Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Georgia"

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Emiro Martínez-Osorio is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University. Mercedes Blanco is a professor of Spanish Golden Age literature at Sorbonne University.

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