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Explores the impact the discovery of the New World had upon Europeans' perceptions of their identity and place in history
This book is a critical study placing both Sigüenza and his narrative within the Spanish American baroque era.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
At the heart of the book is Mordred, King Arthur's incestuous son, shown by Guerin to be an integral part of the Arthurian tradition from the very beginning. Mordred is seen as the tangible proof of the king's sin, committed in all innocence in his youth but resulting in a living incarnation of evil who will kill his father on Salisbury Plain, putting an end to the Arthurian world. But in the early stages of Arthurian romance, because this story cannot be told without the death of Arthur, it cannot be told at all, for Arthur's existence is the necessary condition of the genre: the story of his death would entail authorial suicide and the impossibility of further literary creation. Guerin arg...