Author: Pastor Bodmer, Beatriz
Title: The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the Discovery of America, 1492 - 1589
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x, 317 pp, Translated by Lydia Longstreth Hunt.. Textual maps.. Minor rubbing. Slight bindign corner bumps. VG. ¶ Contents: The Discourse of Mythification; Christopher Columbus & the Definition of America as Booty: Images of an Unknown World; A Real World Disregarded; The Instrumentalization of Reality; Hernán Cortés & the Creation of the Model Conqueror: The Context of a Rebellion; The Narrative Structures of a Fictional Justification; The Creation of a Model; Demythification & Questioning; From Failure to Demythification: A Collective Penchant for Myth; The Narrative Discourse of Failure; Demythification & Criticism in the 'Naufragios'; The Models in Crisis: The Search for El Dorado; From Failure to Rebellion; Rebel & Madman: The Pilgrim; A Literary Expression of the Unfolding of a New Consciousness; Alonso de Ercilla & the Development of a Spanish American Consciousness: Characterization of the Native American: Dehumanization & Mythification; Structures of Integration; A Literary Expression of a New Consciousness.

Keywords: Spanish Historiography, Discoveries Voyage, Voyages Discovery, Literary Literature, Historical History, Criticism, New World America, Hernan Cortes, Alonso de Ercilla