Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Language and history: Renaissance humanism and the philologic tradition; 3. Language and history in the Comentarios reales; 4. Philology, translation, and hermeneutics in the Comentarios reales; 5. Contexts and intertexts: the discourse on the nature of the American Indian and the Comentarios reales; 6. 'Nowhere' is somewhere: the Comentarios reales and the Utopian model; 7. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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This study of the Comentarios is original both in adopting the perspective of discourse analysis and in its interdisciplinary approach.