This is our backup site. Click here to visit our main site at MellenPress.com

La Araucana, an Annotated Critical Edition of a Seventeenth-Century Spanish Auto-Sacramental Text

Author: 
Year:
Pages:124
ISBN:0-7734-1535-1
978-0-7734-1535-5
Price:$139.95
This book is the first annotated critical edition of a little known "auto sacramental" of early Spanish seventeenth century. The auto, representing the mystery of the Eucharist, developed as a literary genre peculiar to Spain, becoming a powerful vehicle to propagate Catholicism, first in Spain and later in the New World.

Reviews

“The commentary notes demonstrate {the author’s] exceptional knowledge of the Bible as well as the life, customs and history of the Araucanians in the Colonial era.” -Prof. Marlene Gottlieb, CUNY Manhattan College

“… an exceptional knowledge of the Bible as well as of the life, customs and history of the Araucanians in the Colonial era.”
-Prof. R. Haboucha

Table of Contents

Preface by Marlene Gottlieb i

Prefacio

Agradecimientos

Introduction

Famoso auto de La Araucana

Apendice A

Apendice B

Notas de Comentario . "

Bibliografia

Indice