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1 online resource (247 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Different Cultural Perspectives of Portuguese Writing; 1. Portugal: The New Frontier; The Voices of the Writers; 2. Distance Sounds (Some Portuguese Fiction); 3. The Golden Impossibility; 4. Curse of the Left Testicle: Histories of Womanhood from Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution; 5. My Hunt for King Sebastịo: How We Invite Miracles into Art and Everyday Life; Critical Approaches to Cam̾es; 6. Exile under Fire: Reassessing the Poetics and Practice of Manuel de Faria e Sousa |
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7. First Encounters: Epic, Gender and the Portuguese Overseas VentureFictionalizing the Nation; 8. Literature Transactions: How Students Respond to the Epic; 9. Maria Iconoclastâ#x80;#x99;s American Adventure in Viagens dâ#x80;#x99;Altina (1790): Ideological Fictions; 10. Nineteenth-Century Portuguese Novelist EÃa de Queirós (1845-1900): From Realism/Naturalism to an â#x80;#x9C;Aesthetics of Imperfectionâ#x80;#x9D;; 11. â#x80;#x9C;Tell Me the Mother You Had ... â#x80;#x9D;: Anti-Feminist Discourses and the Making of The Portuguese Home; 12. Construction of Identity in Portuguese Contemporary Narrative; 13. Invitation to the Voyage |
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Part 2: Portuguese Language and Writing Outside PortugalLusophone Languages and Literary Expressions; 14. Vernacular, Literary, Vehicular, and Official: The Portuguese Language in Africa; 15. Portugal Revisited, Brazil Rediscovered; 16. The Post-Colonial Mozambican Fiction; 17. Revolutionary Utopias and the Imagined Nation in the Narratives of Pepetela; Portuguese-American Literature; 18. Songs of Fate: Portuguese Writing in America; 19. Two Decades of Luso-American Literature: An Overview; Part 3: Bibliography; 20. Portuguese Literature and Criticism Available in English: Suggested Readings |
| Notes |
ContributorIndex |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Portuguese literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Portuguese literature
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
De Laguna, Asela
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| ISBN |
9781351325905 |
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1351325906 |
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