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A Canon of Empty Fathers
A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative is the first book-length study that analyzes the repeated and peculiar deployment of the father figure in Portuguese narratives from the nineteenth century to the present day. In it, Phillip Rothwell argues for a specifically Portuguese tendency toward what he terms empty paternity - a corruption of the Lacanian paternal function that has surfaced continuously in Portuguese culture from the fifteenth century onward.
Formas de ler
Neste seu novo livro de ensaios, Teresa Cristina Cerdeira oferece-nos a argúcia habitual das suas formas de ler. Leitora atenta da Literatura Portuguesa Contemporânea, Teresa Cerdeira procede à revisitação de alguns dos seus autores diletos, de Saramago a Mário Cláudio, passando por Jorge de Sena ou Helder Macedo, colocando-os não raro em diálogo com os clássicos da Língua Portuguesa, sejam eles Camões ou Machado de Assis – a biblioteca –, mas também com o tempo e o corpo. Formas de Ler é um modo de olhar a literatura como trabalho sobre a língua e a criação de formas novas que a cristalizam em arte. E é também um "pronunciamento" em defesa da literatura e do seu estudo, ameaçado de extinção nos tempos de cólera economicista que vivemos. É enfim um grito pela "liberdade de gestão da língua" e das formas que ela adquire na literatura quando "inaugura imagens, cria conceitos, dessemantiza outros, age frequentemente na contramão do senso comum, da norma, da lei". É utopia e resistência. Isabel Pires de Lima
José Saramago entre a história e a ficção: uma saga de portugueses
José Saramago entre a história e a ficção: uma saga de portugueses, de Teresa Cristina Cerdeira é produto de urna tese de doutoramento orientada pela professora Cleonice Berardinelli e apresentada em 1987 na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Trata-se de uma muito estimulante investigação centrada na análise de três romances de José Saramago (Levantado do Chão, Memorial do Convento e O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis), reflete sobre o modo como essas ficções se interligam com a realidade histórica.
The Arthur of the Iberians
Up-to-date Coverage of the scope and extent of the important tradition of Arthurian material in Iberian languages and of the modern scholarship on it. (= Wide-ranging bibliographical coverage and guide to both texts and research on them.) Written by Specialists in the different Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Spanish and its dialects). (= Expert analysis of different traditions by leading scholars from Spain and the UK.) Wide-ranging Study not only of medieval and Renaissance literary texts, but also of modern Arthurian fiction, of the global spread of Arthurian legends in the Spanish and Portuguese worlds, and of the social impact of the legends through adoption of names of Arthurian characters and imitation of practices narrated in the legends. (=A comprehensive guide to both literary and social impact of Arthurian material in major world languages.)
Evil Gods and Reckless Saviours
Late twentieth-century Jesus novels carve out a completely new picture of Jesus. Those written by Norman Mailer, JosŽ Saramago, Michale Roberts, Marianne Fredriksson, and Ki Longfellow, among others, provide inversive revisions of the canonical Gospels. Their adaptations often turn into a critique of the whole of Christian history. The contrast novels investigated in this study end up with appropriations that are based on prototypical rewriting. They aim at the rehabilitation of Judas, and some of them make Mary Magdalene the key figure of Christianity. Saramago describes God as a bloodthirsty tyrant, and Mailer makes God battle the devil in a Manichaen sense as with an equal. The main resu...
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Utopias of Otherness
Forges a new understanding of how these two Lusophone nations are connected. The closely entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil remain key references for understanding developments--past and present--in either country. Accordingly, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil in relation to one another in this exploration of changing definitions of nationhood, subjectivity, and utopias in both cultures. Examining the two nations' shared language and histories as well as their cultural, social, and political points of divergence, Arenas pursues these definitive changes through the realms of literature, intellectual thought, popular culture, and political discourse. Both Brazil and Portuga...
'ReCapricorning' the Atlantic
This special issue of Luso-Brazilian Review includes articles on the Lusophone South Atlantic by historians of Africa and Brazil originally presented in May of 2006 at the Michigan State University and University of Michigan’s Atlantic History Workshop “ReCapricorning the Atlantic: Luso-Brazilian and Luso-African Perspectives on the Atlantic World.” Workshop participants set out to “ReCapricorn the Atlantic” by assessing how new research on the Lusophone South Atlantic modifies, challenges, or confirms major trends and paradigms in the expanding scholarship on Atlantic History.
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Ethics and Poetics
Bringing together international scholars interested in the ethics of fiction, this book extends the rich field of ethical literary criticism that has emerged in the last twenty years. New ground is broached in that the authors explore literariness itself as constitutive of ethical intimations about the pluralistic community and about egalitarian modes of communication. The epistemological point of departure is the ethical thought of modernity as filtered through Hegelian recognition as infinite social responsibility. The structure of the anthology reflects this anchoring as the authors investigate modalities of recognition and social regeneration via literary language, which effects the tran...
