Code
3F020214
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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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.