This paper offers a review of Portuguese pastoral literature, and focuses on the unpublished romance Olympo de pastores, prozas, & verços (1632) by António do Vale de Morais, a manuscript book (presumably autographic) that is now preserved at the National Library of Portugal (BNP 11691). New information is also given on the biography and literary p...
The letter genre has changed over the centuries, passing from a means of communication to a cultural artifact in the present century. The same is true of Portuguese letters, by Mariana Alcoforado (2003), a collection of five love letters from Sóror Mariana Alcoforado, from the convent of Breja in Portugal, to the knight of Chamilly. In order to und...
Based on the contributions of the aesthetics of reception and effect, particularly from authors such as Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser, the present article focuses on the reception of José Saramago in Chinese academic criticism. Through the collection and analysis of 39 academic works (published in journals, conference proceedings, and dissert...
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Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo wrote a romance praising an allegorical fable of Prometheus written by the portuguese Manuel de Sousa Moreira. This fable was known in Spain only through the anonymous manuscript Eccos de la musa transmontana. Prometheus, which could be found in the National Library. This study analises the biographi-cal trajectories, soci...
Set in sixties Salazarist Portugal, the novel Directa (1977) is, according to its own author, the Portuguese writer Nuno Bragança, “the story of someone who lives the revolutionary struggle in a Christian perspective”. The purpose of this article is to investigate how Christianity and revolution are associated in the novel Directa, especially in th...
RESUMO A presente resenha propõe uma apresentação da mais recente obra ensaística de Teresa Cristina Cerdeira, professora e pesquisadora da Faculdade de Letras da UFRJ: Formas de ler (Moinhos, 2020). Trata-se de um conjunto de análises sobre autores e obras da literatura portuguesa, onde temas pertinentes são amplamente discutidos e analisados.
This article aims and challenges to analyze, in a transversal way, some texts of three Portuguese poets − Florbela Espanca, Al Berto and Margarida Vale de Gato −, with regard to the staging of the female in lyrical subjectivity, through a designated conceptual operator “transvestite-writing”. For that, the Queer Theory and the Feminist Theories wil...
Pese a la tardía publicación de la versión en lengua portuguesa de Don Quijote de la Mancha (1794), el conocimiento de la novela cervantina en Portugal puede rastrearse a lo largo del siglo XVIII y se hace especialmente patente en el dominio teatral. Tal es el caso de la «piquena pessa» anónima titulada As tres Cidras do Amor, ou O Cavalleiro Andan...
