A Revisionary History of Portuguese Literature

by Tamen,Miguel; Tamen,Miguel

• ISBN13: 9780815332480
• ISBN10: 0815332483
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of original essays traces the history of Portuguese literature from the medieval period to the present, providing provocative new interpretations of this previously neglected literary history. The volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Portuguese literature to students new to the field, and provides new insight into the ongoing controversies on the subject. The Introduction and Afterword explore the relationship between literary history and revisionism.

Author Biography

Teresa Amado teaches Portuguese Medieval Literature at the Romance Literatures Department, Universidade de Lisboa Helena C. Buescu teaches Comparative Literature, French Literature and Portuguese Literature at the Program in Comparative Literature and at the Romance Literatures Department, Universidade de Lisboa Joao Dionisio is a doctoral candidate as well as a Teaching Assistant in Portuguese Medieval Literature at the Romance Literatures Department, Universidade de Lisboa Antonio M. Feijo teaches American Literature and Literary Theory at the English Department and at the Program in Literary Theory, Universidade de Lisboa Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz teaches Literary Theory at the Romance Literatures Department and at the Program in Literary Theory, Universidade de Lisboa Manuel Gusmao teaches French Literature and Literary Theory at the Romance Literatures Department and at the Programs in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Universidade de Lisboa M. S. Lourenco teaches at the Philosophy Department and at the Program in Literary Theory, Universidade de Lisboa The late Margarida Vieira Mendes taught Portuguese Renaissance and Baroque Literature at the Romance Literatures Department, Universidade de Lisboa Victor Mendes, teaches at the University of Massachusetts-North Dartmouth Paula Morao teaches Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature at the Romance Literatures Department, Universidade de Lisboa J. C. Seabra Pereira teaches Portuguese Literature at the Universidade de Coimbra Vitor Aguiar e Silva, currently teaches Portuguese Literature and Literary Theory and serves as vice-rector at the Universidade do Minho, Braga Miguel Tamen teaches Literary Theory at the Program in Literary Theory (which he currently chairs) and at the Romance Literatures Department, Universidade de Lisboa

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Miguel Tamen
Helena C. Buescu
Introduction Ghosts Revised: An Essay on Literary History	xi
Miguel Tamen
Chapter 1 Infractions of the Name-Hiding Rule in Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poetry	1	(16)
Joao Dionisio
Chapter 2 Belief in History	17	(13)
Teresa Amado
Chapter 3 The Songs of Melancholy: Aspects of Mannerism in Camoes	30	(28)
Vitor Aguiar e Silva
Chapter 4 Baroque Literature Revised and Revisited	58	(21)
Margarida Vieira Mendes
Chapter 5 Portuguese Poetics in the Eighteenth Century	79	(14)
Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz
Chapter 6 Socio-institutional Literary Practices in Portuguese Romanticism	93	(12)
Helena C. Buescu
Chapter 7 Decadence and Fin-de-siecle Literature in Portugal	105	(19)
J.C. Seabra Pereira
Chapter 8 Before the Barbarians	124	(18)
M.S. Lourenco
Chapter 9 Fernando Pessoa's Odd Epic	142	(11)
Antonio M. Feijo
Chapter 10 Notes for a Cartography of Twentieth-Century Portuguese Poetry	153	(23)
Manuel Gusmao
Chapter 11 Contemporary Portuguese Fiction--Cases and Problems	176	(14)
Paula Morao
Chapter 12 Four Twentieth-Century Portuguese Critics	190	(19)
Victor Mendes
Afterword Literary History: Are We Still Talking?	209	(4)
Helena C. Buescu
Contributors	213	(4)
Index	217