Claudio Roberto Da Silva Mineiro

Placar Magazine

• Type: Magazine
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• Published: 1999-02
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• Publisher: Unknown

PLACAR: a maior revista brasileira de futebol. Notícias, perfis, entrevistas, fotos exclusivas.

Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel

• Author(s): Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva, Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos

• Categories: Literary Criticism

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2020-05-14
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• Publisher: UCL Press

Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework of comparative literature based on a systemic and empirical approach to the study of the novel and applies that framework to the analysis of key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. The works under examination were published during the period in which the forms and procedures of the novel were acclimatized as the genre established and consolidated itself in Brazil.

Futebol Nation

• Author(s): David Goldblatt

• Categories: Sports & Recreation

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2014-05-13
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• Publisher: Bold Type Books

No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil’s people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of the nation’s collective potential. Since the team’s dazzling performance in 1938 at the World Cup in France, Brazilian soccer has been revered as an otherworldly blend of the effective and the aesthetic. Futebol Nation is an extraordinary chronicle of a nation that has won the World Cup five times and produced players of miraculous skill, such as Pelé, Garrincha, Rivaldo, Zico, Ronaldo, and Ronaldinho. It shows why the phrase O Jogo Bonito—the Beautiful Game—has justly entered the global lexicon. Yet there i...

Placar Magazine

• Type: Magazine
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• Published: 2000-03
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• Publisher: Unknown

PLACAR: a maior revista brasileira de futebol. Notícias, perfis, entrevistas, fotos exclusivas.

The Country of Football

• Author(s): Roger Kittleson

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2014-06-12
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• Publisher: Univ of California Press

"In time for Brazil's hosting of the 2014 World Cup, this book uses the stories of star players and other key figures (based on over 40 interviews) to create a contemporary history of Brazilian soccer from the 1950s to the present. It also explores race and class tensions in Brazil and shows how soccer is central to the country's dramatic trajectory toward modernity and economic power"--