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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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For a more encompassing and stimulating picture of Modernism - seen as a movement of the 20th century, a broad spectrum of work across many countries - we must explore its diversity. Portuguese Modernism manifested itself both in visual art and in literature, and made a vigorous contribution to this time of profound cultural change.Indeed, the sociocultural transformations that marked the early 20th century in Portugal are still current. This volume provides a critical guide for students and teachers, contributed to by an array of scholars with unparalleled knowledge of the period, its artists and its writers. Steffen Dix is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon; Jeronimo Pizarro is Research Fellow at the Linguistics Centre, University of Lisbon. ... Read more

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Prefixed Are Philological Works, Grammar, Dictionaries, Etc. ... Read more

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Much has been written about perceptions of China in English and French literatures, but relatively little on Portuguese literature, in spite of Portugal's long association with the Far East and presence in Macau. While most of the existing scholarship has focused on the early period of Portuguese contact with China, Dr. Brookshaw's book concentrates specifically on the literature of the last one hundred years. The convulsive events of 11 September 2001 brought fears of a cataclysmic clash of civilizations, of races and of religions. The creeping homogenization of the global village, on Western socio-economic and cultural terms, often disadvantageous and disagreeable to the recipients, had provoked a major riposte, however brutally excessive it may be judged, that was identified as the response to centuries of hubris. As never before, the planet's denizens were forced into a serious confrontation with Otherness, appreciable numbers of them for the very first time. Meanwhile, some societies were (often clumsily) promoting multicultural and multi-ethnic values, whilst others raged in bloody pursuit of ethnic and religious cleansing.Yet the world had much to learn from Macau, the former Portuguese enclave at the mouth of China's Pearl River estuary. Four and a half centuries ago, China and the Far East represented the most extreme form of the Other encountered by the West. It was the Portuguese who pioneered long-lasting contact with China by gaining, in 1557, a toehold on the tiny Macau peninsula and by their major contribution, till around 1610, to the Jesuit missions on the mainland of China. Macau, moreover, began as the entrepot between the two great oriental adversaries, China and Japan. Though steadily declining from its sixteenth-century commercial heyday, the city saw the emergence of the Macanese, the product of a multi-racial melting-pot in which the Chinese and the Portuguese (usually males) were the principal though not the only ingredients. To be Macanese embodied the possession of a tolerant psychocultural outlook that involved more than the successful blending of Portuguese and Chinese values: a new identity had evolved. Political and economic turmoil in twentieth-century China led to heavy Chinese migration into Macau, subjecting Macanese civilization to the danger of the gravest dilution.The peninsular city and its two islands, Taipa and Coloane, were reintegrated into China on 20 December 1999, but with a Chinese undertaking to preserve Macau's distinct cultural status for at least fifty years. In Macau the Portuguese language, nevertheless, is imperilled, though the remnants of Portuguese architecture are more permanent physical reminders of the past. But a reference-point for all posterity is the late twentieth-century upsurge of a creative literature, flowing not only from the pens of Portuguese residents, but also, and most crucially, from the pens of native Macanese. In these works, as Border Gates emphatically reveals, the Macanese psyche and cultural ethos, both in the peninsula and in the diasporas, are revealed in all their facets and on a variety of time-scales. This writing, naturally, portrays humanity in its usual struggle with the problems brought by love and despair, by belief and change, by death and distance, but it also reveals how a hybridized society can be at relative ease with itself. It is probable that such literary expression will be the ark in which Macau's exemplary tolerance and cultural difference are to be preserved.Border Gates offers a timely opportunity for the reader to judge. ... Read more

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Much medieval anticlerical satire stems from perceived discrepancies between proclaimed ideal and everyday reality, but it also owes much to a particularly successful literary tradition and cannot be accepted without question. After identifying the predominant literary characteristics of the medieval Portuguese clergy, this study uses other sources - sermons, exempla, visitation documents, doctrinal tracts, confession manuals and chronicles - to gauge clerical success or failure in fundamental areas of responsibility: attending and convoking councils and synods, carrying out visitations and preaching. It reveals the contrast between the literary stereotypes and documentary evidence. ... Read more

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Based on the outstanding collections of Indiana University Libraries in the field, this is by far the largest bibliography of Portuguese literature published in the U.S., including not only all genres of literature proper from the beginning to the present, but titles in certain areas--voyages of discovery, "literatura doutrinal", early history--that have become an integral part of Portuguese letters. Among the works drawn from Indiana University's Lilly Library of rare books are early printings of "Monarchia Lusitana", Vieira's "Sermons", and the "Chronicle" of King Manuel. Also noteworthy is the large number of 19th-century journals and of single plays, particularly comedies and reviews. American students of Portuguese literature will find especially valuable the extensive coverage of titles published in the U.S. and Great Britain. In the organization of material, the bibliography follows Library of Congress subject classifications. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Published by: Boosey and sons in 1823 in 426 pages; Subjects: Spanish literature; Portuguese literature; Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese; ... Read more

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Originally published in 1922. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This book is a study in the social history of literature. Portugal's power and presitge began to decline in the mid-1500's, reducing the nation's international standing and self-image to a low point from which it has never fully recovered. In the ensuing years, this book argues, mythicizing the Age of the Discoveries and establishing a link to it have been recurring patterns in Portuguese thought. These patterns are reflected in what is called 'the literature of national regeneration.' Portugal's days of glory were short-lived: from the capture of the Arab port of Ceuta in North Africa (1415) to the defeat by the Moors in present-day Morocco (1578). The latter, in which the Portuguese king and the cream of the nobility perished, led to the accession of a Spanish king and to the end, in the Portuguese consciousness, of an era of greatness. The author's introduction discusses the impact on Portugal of 'two of the strongest intellectual currents of the age- Renaissance Humanism and a late-Medieval tendency toward prophecy,' showing these 'involved an extremely idealistic outlook on experience' and that such idealism was subject to frustration. Dr. Sousa shows how the self-image of writers since the Age of the Discoveries 'commingles in their minds with the image they have of their nation.' Chapters are devoted to Luis de Camoes and his epic poem Os Lusiadas (1572), Antonia Vieira and his Historia do Futuro (1647-63), Almeida Garrett and his lyric-narrative poem Camos (1825) Eca de Queiroz and his novel A Ilustre Casa de Ramires (1900), and Fernando Pessoa and his volume of poetry Mensagem (1934). Each of these authors is shown to treat the preoccupations of his time -ethical, political, and aesthetic- but with the leitmotif of national regeneration. The book's unique literary-historical synthesis makes it valuable to both Hispanic scholars and those seeking an introduction to Portuguese literature. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more