Project

The Art of Assimilation: Identity and Otherness in the Epic Poetry of Lepanto.

Code

3F020214

Duration

01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Elizabeth Amann

Fellow

Maxim Rigaux

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Comparative literature studies
- Literatures in Spanish

Keywords

Epic poetry Lepanto 16th Century Epic Identity Latin literature Spanish literature Literary studies

Project description

This research project examines a series of ‘Spanish’ epic poems written in the wake of the battle of Lepanto (1571). It explores the representation of the cultural Other in these poems and the way in which they enter into dialogue with the Classical and Christian traditions.