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The fury of Achilles serves as the central axis around which the ten insightful essays of this volume are organized. The critical approaches exhibit a commendable diversity, addressing themes related to the multifaceted nature of the Iliadic hero. This investigation is both relevant and refreshing, drawing on the expertise of researchers from different academic domains. The contributions collectively focus on the striking character of the wrathful warrior of the Iliad, uncovering new perspectives, concerning potential parallels with the biblical Samson, the destructive consequences of his actions, crucial aspects about his dead, and his lasting influence in the iconography of Roman Imperial Age, as well in contemporary cinema.
The contributions to this volume cover a large diachronic, geographical, and cultural space. Some of the texts go back to antiquity, using the Odyssey as the most significant source for several reflections, both ancient and contemporary, and therefore the safest link between old and contemporary versions. In addition, in the modern and contemporary summaries and tales analysed here, predominance is given to epics (Homer and other famous stories known from the epic cycle) as a source, exemplified by texts belonging to various literary works from across the globe, focused on the influence that major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.
This book introduces the main concepts used in the growing field of reception studies.
This book includes 21 chapters dedicated to the study of contemporary, Portuguese and Brazilian poets influenced by the Greco-Roman tradition. It integrates the international bibliography on reception studies in an Ibero-American context. However, the comparison between poets from the two countries highlights the cultural community that, despite the differences, unites them. Travels, routes, and adventures, taken in a linear or symbolic sense, are the common trace of all contributions. The variety of tastes, the greater or smaller closeness to the ancient models, and the authors’ preferences contribute to an overall view of the classical imprint on contemporary poetry as a specific area of literature.
The concept of linguistic justice, as applied to minoritized languages, sheds light upon the way in which minoritized communities conduct their lives in less than optimal environments. Precisely for that reason, the theoretical framework for the study of minoritized languages has been constructed from different areas of knowledge, creating a situation in which "language" is just one of the elements. This collection of essays proposes to recover the centrality of bilingualism, biculturalism and bidialectalism in the understanding of the different social, cultural and political processes of historical and contemporary language justice. It provides relevant theoretical and practical frameworks on the latest studies in linguistic justice as applied to minoritized languages and linguistic varieties such as Korean in Los Angeles, USA, Arabic in Spain, or Náhuat in Central America. Analyzing the acquisition, maintenance and attrition of these languages both in digital and physical environments, the volume contributes to expanding our knowledge of the sociolinguistic, educational, political and social realities that occur in minoritized languages.
Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal gathers a collection of essays on the Portuguese drama rewritings of this Theban myth produced in the 20th and 21st centuries. For each of the cases analysed, the Portuguese historical, political and cultural context is described. This perspective is expanded through a dialogue with coeval European events. As concerns Portugal, this results principally in political and feminist approaches to the texts. Since the importation of the Sophoclean model is often indirect, the volume includes comparisons with intermediate sources, namely French (Cocteau, Anouilh) and Spanish (María Zambrano), which were extremely influential on the many and diversified versions written in Portugal during this period.
Este volume reúne um conjunto de estudos que têm por motivo o mito de Antígona, a sua expressão clássica e a sua recepção moderna e contemporânea, em diferentes contextos culturais (Portugal, Brasil, Espanha, França e Itália). This volume includes several texts about the myth of Antigone, its classical expression and modern and contemporary reception, in different cultural contexts (Portugal, Brazil, Spain, France and Italy). This volume includes several texts about the myth of Antigone, its classical expression and modern and contemporary reception, in different cultural contexts (Portugal, Brazil, Spain, France and Italy).
Esta obra reúne um conjunto de estudos em homenagem a Luísa de Nazaré Ferreira. Especialistas de diferentes domínios científicos refletem sobre temas relacionados com a Grécia e a História Antigas, mas também com outras áreas da História, da Literatura, da Política e da Religião. Salamina constitui o eixo central em torno do qual se organiza o Vol. I – testemunhos literários, o seu impacto na História e a receção na Arte e na Literatura. O Vol. II congrega diversos contributos, do Egito e Roma Antigos à Época Moderna e Contemporaneidade. A riqueza de temáticas, transversais no tempo e no espaço, reflete as respostas dos colegas, amigos e discípulos ao apelo de participar nesta homenagem à helenista, professora e investigadora da Universidade de Coimbra, Luísa de Nazaré Ferreira.
This volume presents key results of the Estudo comparativo de variedades africanas, brasileiras e europeias do Português (ALFAL Project 21): (i) an overview of the results and new perspectives of analysis; (ii) the description of morphosyntactic phenomena in Portuguese varieties; and (iii) a discussion about methodological aspects fundamental to the development of comparative linguistic studies.
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