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Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island
Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines its impact on English maritime exploration and literature. It investigates the Gaelicization process that the island underwent in nineteenth century and how it became associated with St Brendan. Finally, it pursues the Brasil Island trope in modern literature, the arts and popular culture.
Back to the Future of Irish Studies
The concepts of Ireland and 'Irishness' are in constant flux in the wake of an ever-increasing reappraisal of the notion of cultural and national specificity in a world assailed from all angles by the forces of globalisation and uniformity. Reimagining Ireland interrogates Ireland's past and present and suggests possibilities for the future by looking at Ireland's literature, culture and history and subjecting them to the most up-to-date critical appraisals associated with sociology, literary theory, historiography, political science and theology.
Foucault in Brazil
Philosopher Michel Foucault’s cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less well known are the five trips he took to Brazil between 1965 and 1976. Although a coup in 1964 had installed a military dictatorship, Foucault kept his opinion on the Brazilian government largely to himself until October 23, 1975. On that date, he delivered a manifesto at a student assembly in São Paulo expressing his solidarity with students and professors protesting a wave of arrests and torture. This manifesto caught the government’s attention and became the focal point of the dictatorship’s surveillance of Foucault. Foucault in Brazil explores the production of the public antagonism between the philosopher and the dictatorship through a meticulous consideration of each of his visits to Brazil. Marcelo Hoffman connects history, philosophy, and political theory to open new ways of thinking about Foucault as a person and thinker and about Brazil and authoritarianism.
Brazilian History
This book offers the reader a critical and interdisciplinary introduction to Brazilian history. Combining a didactic approach with insightful historical analysis, it discusses the main political, cultural, and social developments taking place in the Latin American country from 1500 to 2010. The historical narrative leads the reader step by step and in chronological succession to a clear understanding of the country’s three main historical periods: the Colonial Period (1500-1822), the Empire (1822-1889), and the Republic (1889-present). Each phase is treated separately and subdivided according to the political developments and successive regional forces that controlled the nation’s territory throughout the centuries. At the end of each section, an individual chapter discusses the foremost cultural and artistic developments of the period, engaging perspectives on literature, music, and the visual arts, including cinema. Through its multifaceted approach, the book explores economic history, foreign policy, education and social history, as well as literary and artistic history to reveal the multiethnic and culturally diversified nature of Brazil in all its fullness.
Segredos da Propaganda Anticomunista
O livro exibe pela primeira vez documentos diplomáticos britânicos sobre as atividades de propaganda anticomunista realizadas no Brasil pelo IRD. Estabelecido em 1948 e fechado em 1977, o IRD (Information Research Department ou Departamento de Pesquisa de Informações) foi uma unidade secreta do governo do Reino Unido com a missão de combater a propaganda soviética e a influência do comunismo, principalmente em paÃses do Terceiro Mundo, durante a Guerra Fria. Para atingir seus objetivos, especialistas ingleses em espionagem, inteligência e propaganda colocaram em prática toda a carga de experiência adquirida nos tempos de guerra. O IRD realizava, basicamente, dois tipos de operaçÃ...
Enemies of Empire
Enemies of empire addresses a conspicuous gap in the current literature on colonial and postcolonial literary, theoretical and historical studies and introduces new perspectives on the qualitative nature of empire. Themes examined include Irish literature, African history, Cold War politics, circuits of knowledge, religious history, Indian hunger strikes, early 20th-century humanitarianism, globalization and subaltern studies. Contributors: Linda Connolly (UCC), Michael Griffin (U. Limerick), Eugene O'Brien (Mary I.), Louise Fuller (NUIM), Joseph Lennon (Manhattan College, New York), Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Michael Kilburn (Endicott College, Beverly, MA), Talinn Grigor (MIT), Dan O'Connell (Hobart & William Smith Colleges), Stephen Donovan (Columbia U.), Tiro Sebina (U. Botswana), EÃ?Â?Ã?Â3in Flannery (U. Limerick), Angus Mitchell (U. Limerick).
Cachaças: Bebendo e Aprendendo
"Cachaças Bebendo e Aprendendo - Guia Prático de Degustação" é o primeiro livro do mundo sobre a arte e a técnica da degustação de cachaças. Em belo formato portátil, primorosa edição bilÃngue, ricamente ilustrada com fotos coloridas - a obra contém todas as informações, dicas e segredos pra quem quer conhecer as qualidades e virtudes sensoriais de uma cachaça.
Unorthodox Ways to Think the City
This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses architecture and architectural theory, but also art theory and history, cartography, philosophy, literature and cultural studies, to unfold a series of ‘figures’ that are ambiguously placed between the representation and the construction of space in architecture and the city. The paradigm and philosophy, the island and the city, the map and representation, the model and making and the questioning of form performed by dust, are explored beyond the...
