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"A condessa de Santa Bárbara ia passada de espanto quando entrou na grade, onde encontrou padre Dinis. Aquele homem apresentava-se-lhe outro, agora. A grandeza do seu passado, as misteriosas desventuras da sua vida, o heroísmo do sacerdote ungido pelas lágrimas de uma paixão eterna, gravada sempre naquela fisionomia macerada, o mistério, enfim, acobertado no silêncio de dezasseis anos, era o que faltava naquele homem para inculcar-se prestigiosamente a D. Ângela de Lima."
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"Tentar fazer um romance é um desejo inocente. Baptizá-lo com um título pomposo é um pretexto ridículo. Apanhar uma nomenclatura, estafada e velha, insculpi-la no frontispício de um livro, e ficar orgulhoso de ter um padrinho original, isso, meus caros leitores, é uma patranha de que eu não sou capaz. Este romance não é meu filho, nem meu afilhado. Se eu me visse assaltado pela tentação de escrever a vida oculta de Lisboa, não era capaz de alinhavar dois capítulos com jeito. O que eu conheço de Lisboa são os relevos, que se destacam nos quadros de todas as populações com foro de cidades e de vilas. Isso não vale a honra do romance. Recursos de imaginação, se os eu tivera, não viria consumi-los aqui em unia tarefa inglória. E, sem esses recursos, pareceu-me sempre impossível escrever os mistérios de uma terra, que não tem nenhuns, e, inventados, ninguém os crê."
Author: Peter Melville Logan Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 111877907X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 803
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Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.
Author: Michael Goddard Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 023116730X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 217
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Raúl Ruiz, while considered one of the world's most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English. This volume sets out on this task by mapping, as fully as possible, Ruiz's cinematic trajectory across more than five decades of prolific work, up to his death in 2011; ranging from his earliest work in Chile to high-budget 'European' costume dramas culminating in Mysteries of Lisbon (2010). It does so by treating Ruiz's work – with its surrealist, magic realist, popular cultural, and neo-Baroque sources – as a type of 'impossible' cinematic cartography, mapping real, imaginary, and virtual spaces, and crossing between different cultural contexts, aesthetic strategies, and technical media. It argues that across the different phases of Ruiz's work identified, there are key continuities such as the invention of singular cinematic images and the interrogation of their possible and impossible combinations.
Author: José Paulo Cavalcanti Filho Publisher: Mimesis ISBN: 8869772489 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1483
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Writing a biography about Pessoa is a seemingly impossible task. The great Portuguese poet did not have just one life, but his existence virtually exploded in over a hundred different personalities. Only by placing oneself close to Pessoa, only by becoming almost one with him, is it possible to trace the life of this poet who was himself a multitude. José Paulo Cavalcanti has done such a thing, sewing together a path that runs through Pessoa’s multiple voices and personalities, seamlessly moving in and out of the poet’s work, daily habits and interactions. Following the great success of the Brazilian edition, Fernando Pessoa. A quasi Memoir is the first English translation of the book, and it provides new insights on the complex nature of the Portuguese poet.
Author: Thomas Foster Earle Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 1855662671 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 240
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This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It consists of a chronological overview of Portuguese literature from the twelfth century to the present day, by some of the most distinguished literary scholars of recent years, leading into substantial essays centred on major authors, genres or periods, and a study of the history of translations. It does not attempt an encyclopaedic coverage of Portuguese literature, but provides essential chronological and bibliographical information on all major authors and genres, with more extensive treatment of key works and literary figures, and a particular focus on the modern period. It is unashamedly canonical rather than thematic in its examination of central authors and periods, without neglecting female writers. In this way it provides basic reference materials for students beginning the study of Portuguese literature, and for a wider audience looking for general or specific information. The editors have made a principled decision to exclude both Brazilian and African literature, which demand separate treatment. STEPHEN PARKINSON, CLAUDIA PAZOS ALONSO and T. F. EARLE are all members of the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese at the University of Oxford. CONTRIBUTORS: Vanda Anast cio, Helena Carvalhao Buescu, Rip Cohen, T. F. Earle, David Frier, Lu s Gomes, Mariana Gray de Castro, Helder Macedo, Patricia Odber de Baubeta, Hilary Owen, Stephen Parkinson, Cl udia Pazos Alonso, Juliet Perkins, Teresa Pinto Coelho, Phillip Rothwell, Mark Sabine, Claire Williams, Clive Willis.
Author: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1501318608 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 291
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The child has existed in cinema since the Lumière Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but also to those interested in exploring how film cultures can shift questions of agency and experience in relation to subjectivity. Childhood and Nation in World Cinema recognizes that the range of films and scholarship is now sufficiently extensive to invoke the world cinema mantra of pluri-vocal and pluri-central attention and interpretation. At the same time, the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood is an undiminished tic in adult cultural and social consciousness. Either the child on film provokes claims on the nation or the nation claims the child. Given the waning star of national film studies, and the widely held and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, the point here is not to assume some extraordinary pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, the present collection observes how and why and whether the cinematic child is indeed aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the State, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts.
Author: Camilo Castelo Branco
Author: Camilo Castelo Branco
Author: Camilo Castelo Branco
Author: Peter Melville Logan
Author: Camilo Castelo Branco
Author: Michael Goddard
Author: CAMILO CASTELO BRANCO
Author: José Paulo Cavalcanti Filho
Author: Thomas Foster Earle
Author: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald