Lee, Jongsoo,  1964- <br/><br/>
The allure of Nezahualcoyotl  pre-Hispanic history, religion, and Nahua poetics /  [electronic resource] : 
Jongsoo Lee. 
 - Albuquerque :  University of New Mexico Press,  2008. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 282 p.) :  ill., maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-270) and index. 
<br/><br/>The sources, colonial ideology, and Texcoca regionalism -- Founding the Texcoca dynasty: Chichimec Xolotl and Toltec Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl -- Revisiting pre-Hispanic Central Mexico: Texcoca reality before Nezahualcoyotl -- Reexamining Nezahualcoyotl's Texcoco: politics, government, and legal system -- Nezahualcoyotl and the notion of individual authorship in Nahua poetry -- A reinterpretation of Nahua poetics: Nahua cosmogony, Nahua songs, and Nezahualcoyotl -- A reinterpretation of Nahua poetic themes: ephemerality, war and sacrifice, and Nezahualcoyotl -- The Westernization of Nahua religion: Nezahualcoyotl's unknown god -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Nezahualcoyotl and the irony of colonialism in Ernesto Cardenal's poetry. 
<br/><br/> Presents a new disuccion of fifteenth-century "poet-king" Nezahualcoyotl that examines original Nahuatl writings in conjunction with Spanish chronicles to present a revised biographical portrait of the Aztec figure. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780826343390 (electronic bk.) 0826343392 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Nezahualcóyotl, King of Texcoco,  1402-1472. <br/>Nezahualcoyotl (Aztekenreich, König)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aztecs--Kings and rulers--Biography.<br/>Nahuatl poetry--History and criticism.<br/>Lyrik.<br/>Präkolumbische Zeit.<br/>Religion.<br/>HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Texcoco de Mora (Mexico)--Antiquities.<br/>Nahuatl.<br/>Nahua.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F1219.75.N49  / L44 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>972/.018