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The article focuses on author and sinologist Launcelot Cranmer-Byng's contribution to Symbolist literature, emphasizing his cosmopolitan approach. Topics discussed include his engagement with multiple cultural literatures, particularly Chinese and Portuguese; his role in the transnational development of Symbolism; and his efforts to provide an optimistic, spiritually-oriented alternative to materialistic modernity through translation and creative practice.

This article reads Mário de Sá-Carneiro's 1913 novella A Confissão de Lúcio [Lúcio's Confession] alongside Lacan's seemingly dissenting claim that "censorship is not resistance." A close friend and collaborator of Fernando Pessoa, Sá-Carneiro was a key figure in the "Grupo de Orpheu" that was responsible for the introduction and development of modernism in Portuguese literature and art. A Confissão de Lúcio , Sá-Carneiro's most famous work, is a first-person confessional narrative that tells the story of a sexual liaison between the eponymous protagonist and his friend Ricardo de Loureiro. Yet, although this liaison is the crux of the novella, it is at the same time banished from the letter of the text, which rather narrates Lúcio's affair with Ricardo's wife, Marta, who acts as a mediatory figure for the homosexual desire between the two men. Following Lacan's argument that censorship is not a form of resistance to desire but rather part of its very expression, I ask: how might the doubts, hesitations, and aporia in Sá-Carneiro's novella be read as articulations of the text's repressed and unconscious truth? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Visual narratives, such as graphic novels and comic books, are powerful forms of literature that use verbal and pictorial modes, in intersemiotic complementarity, making them an effective tool to tackle social issues, namely to explore hidden or sensitive topics in a thought-provoking, entertaining, and inspiring way. This is the case in the last graphic novel published by a young Portuguese writer and illustrator for children and young adults, Joana Estrela, the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. In this study, then, we intend to focus on Raquel, the protagonist in Pardalita, who takes her future into her hands and ventures to navigate the waters of self-discovery, crossing prejudice and challenging gender role stereotypes. Through her theatre group, she enters a third space that promotes inclusivity and empowers individuals regardless of gender. By analysing the multimodality that characterises this book, we come to realise the synergistic and transformative potential that visual narratives hold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writer Isabela Figueiredo (Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, 1963) and documentary filmmaker Diana Andringa (Dundo, Angola, 1947) share the common experience of being born and raised in former Portuguese colonies in Africa. Having lived in Portugal for a long time, both have a strong emotional connection with the lands where they were born. Additionally, they have produced works dedicated to the memory of their parents, which deal with recollections of their childhoods in colonial territories where exploitation and various forms of violence were widespread against the local populations. Despite belonging to different social classes - Figueiredo's father was an electrician, while Andringa's father was an engineer -, both men experienced gender and racial privileges within an oppressive colonial structure rooted in racism, which, in turn, reflected the policies of the metropolis. Thus, this article aims to discuss how the authors of Notebook of colonial memories (FIGUEIREDO, 2009) and the documentary Dundo, colonial memory (ANDRINGA, 2009) address the memories of their respective fathers, men who represented, in different degrees, personifications of the Portuguese colonialism in Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

José Saramago (1984), in Objeto quase, outlines in an allegorical way the themes to which he refers. The short story chosen for the analysis, "Centauro", will be approached in two aspects: first, the half-animal, half-human condition of the mythical being will serve as a symbol of the human condition itself, divided between the civilizing sphere constructed by the species and the circumscription inherent to the natural, savage world, in which the tension between the Freudian drives of life and death will be addressed, Eros and Thanatos; second, the relationship between society and the centaur, examining the issue from a metaphorical perspective, referring to the disaggregation of the human being from the natural world from myths and, subsequently, the abandonment of myths towards the primacy of rationality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this work is to examine the representation of some reader characters in the works O primo Basílio (1878) and Os Maias (1888), by the Portuguese writer Eça de Queirós, considering the literary culture and education of men and women of the time. Therefore, the intention is to conduct a brief study on the recurrence of literature in queirosian fiction, highlighting, above all, the readings consumed by the characters - both female and male - and the reflection of this literature in the construction of each reader present in the respective narratives. It is important to recognize, in this context, literature as a way of portraying the nineteenth-century cultural environment. Through literary production originating from Portugal and other countries, literary movements influenced individuals in 19th century Portuguese society and, consequently, are made explicit in Eça's fiction through exceptional characterizations of detailed and complex characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to investigate how Portuguese writer José Saramago's essayistic writing approaches the theories on the essay genre developed by philosopher Michel de Montaigne. Saramago's connection with Montaigne appears throughout Saramago's work and, for this reason, it will be necessary to take a panoramic view of his ideas, tracing a path that leads to the novel Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia (1977). The aim is to discuss the signs of the essayistic bias, that is, that type of writing which is conscious of the writer's craft and the act of writing and which reveals this consciousness in the writing itself, in a metalinguistic way, because it focuses on the construction of literary creation. Saramago builds a reflection intrinsic to his writing that makes the writer discuss, deeply and seriously, the craft and responsibility of dealing with words, rehearsing an attempt to understand the world that surrounds him and how he surrounds the world, while at the same time composing his prose fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen has established herself as a unique poetic voice in the 20th century, without, however, failing to highlight her relationship with her predecessors. In Navegações (1983), the author evokes the grandiosity of the sea, based on the experience of the voyage of discovery, marked by the astonishment of the gaze that reveals the world. In exploring this theme, Sophia establishes a frank dialog with the Portuguese literary tradition, evoking, for example, names such as Luís de Camões, Fernando Pessoa and Jorge de Sena. In the midst of this multiplicity of voices, the author revisits Portugal's epic and maritime tradition in her own way. In this sense, this work is dedicated to analyzing how the relationship between the Andresenean lyrical subject and the sea is configured in the aforementioned publication, observing the way in which literary echoes and voices permeate and/or interact with her own writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the question of fictional authorship based on the case of the Libro de los grandes hechos, an apocalyptic text circulated in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese during the fifteenth century. All versions attribute its creation to a supposed visionary friar of the order of the "Sancti Spiritus" named Juan Unay (or similar). However, no other documents on this figure exist. To analyze this problem from both theoretical and practical perspectives, I will organize the paper in three sections. First, I will introduce two general approaches with which to address the study of authorship in the field of medieval apocalyptic literature. Secondly, I will explore the different hypotheses developed by specialists regarding the authorship of the Libro de los grandes hechos. Finally, I will propose my own interpretation of the identity of Juan Unay with the help of Umberto Eco's concept of the "model author." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to reflect on curricular reformulations in the teaching of Portuguese literature, focusing on students covered by the Racial Quotas (12.711/12 and 14.723/23). As part of the discussions related to the permanence of these students, some reading strategies are fundamental to the interpretation of the texts, as well as the dynamics of the subjects. From this perspective, legitimizing different readings, especially regarding literary tradition as a possibility for reinterpreting the colonial past, would promote the promotion of literary reading in its differences, in order to integrate the quota student. Therefore, based on specific data from the Federal University of Lavras, in Minas Gerais, related to the high number of dropouts of these students, in addition to discussions regarding the problems related to the teaching of this literature, from Basic Education, the proposed discussions intend to contribute to new guidelines, such as promoting the debate of ideas that subvert fixed curricula and belonging to visions about idealized students and, consequently, distant from the realities experienced in Universities [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work intends to investigate the relationship built in O regresso de Júlia Mann a Paraty, by Teolinda Gersão with regard to Literature and Psychoanalysis, especially because they are fields that dialogue with each other, however, literature is seen as the writer’s worldview and, in turn, psychoanalysis operates by deconstructing the subject’s worldviews to reveal the structures that organize it. To study the narrative in question, psychocriticism will be applied, as it is revealed in two ways: genetic and textual psychocriticism. Genetics can be subdivided into pathographies and psychobiographies. Textual or psychoanalytic criticism is justified within the scope of literary criticism because the work is more than a set of aesthetic categories; It is also the fulfillment of the author’s unconscious desire, a kind of alchemical ritual that goes through stages during life in contact with others and human nature. Thus, Freud, Thomas Mann and Julia Mann as characters in Gerse’s narrative are a representation, an extension of the subjective life, therefore, of Teolinda Gersão herself, in the act of creation. Furthermore, authors such as: Jean Bellemin-Noel (1978), Dayan-Herzbrun (1997), Miskolci (2003), among others, will be used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The alienation and violence so often manifested in José Cardoso Pires' narrative appear associated with an environment of suffocation, motivated by a social structure that constantly threatens freedom, dignity and, in many cases, the lives of human beings. It is true that the Portuguese are beings full of history. There have always been those who lived in the shadow of Power, among various inquisitions, whose eyes -- a thousand -- always included bureaucrats on duty, putting at risk the freedom and rights of men, in a state of exception, this "point of imbalance between public law and private fact", according to Giorgio Agamben (State of exception, 2004, p. 11), tending "increasingly to present itself as a dominant government paradigm in contemporary politics." Two books of short narratives come to the public when neorealism is in full force, at a time when the Salazarist Estado Novo exercises its power of repression and censorship -- Os Caminheiros (1949) and Histórias de Amor (1952) -- the latter taken out of circulation by censorship on August 26 of the same year of its publication. With the publication of the volume Jogos de Azar, in 1963, stories from the two books were made public. In 2008, ten years after the death of its author, the second edition of Histórias de amor would be released, including the previously censored excerpts. It is with this book that I intend to pay homage to the author of O Delfim, twenty-five years after his death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Luís Carlos Patraquim's poetry often explores how bodily sensations blend with those of the natural world as they move throughout Mozambique, particularly the urban city of Maputo and the separate, rural Island of Mozambique. Rough winds breeze through both urban and rural spaces of the eastern coast of Africa, offering a fruitful area for atmospheric considerations of the poet's work. Wind is an irregular and transformative part of the natural, urban, and poetic worlds. In Tonino Griffero's conception, it is a "quasi-thing": an affect challenging to apprehend that has often been a peripheral object of desire, capture, and exploitation. Using wind to trace representations of Mozambique and Maputo in the postrevolutionary and postcolonial contexts of Patraquim's poetic oeuvre, I seek to elucidate how nature--and wind in particular--broadens sensations within the body as it moves through Patraquim's depiction of Mozambique and its cities as poetic sites of sensory appreciation and ancestral experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study "Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) and Spain: chronicles, letters and novels" is to present, on the one hand, aspects of his perception of "Frenchism" and "Iberism"; as well as his political views on the Spanish colonial question in Melilla (Spanish Morocco), the Caroline Islands (Western Pacific) and Manila (Philippines). In addition to his opinion as Consul in Havana on the crisis in Cuba (Spanish Antilles): the Ten Years' War (1868-1878), a struggle for independence, and the issue of Chinese immigrants (Chinese or coolies), employees hired for the crops, coming from Macau, which had Portuguese jurisdiction. And, on the other hand, to analyse the literary works that have themes linked to the cultural and colonial history of Spain and his people: The Capital (1875 and 1876); The Catastrophe (c. 1879); The Tragedy of Rua das Flores (1877 and 1878), The Maias (1888); The Treasury (1894); The Defunct (1895) and A Ilustre Casa de Ramires (1897). The research will be carried out from the perspective of Burke's image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Not many documents qualify as material evidence of 17th century holographs in Portugal. However, personal miscellanies can provide valuable insight into textual composition and transmission in the literary scene of the time. One of the examples worth exploring is a miscellaneous volume of papers collected by D. Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666), which includes several manuscripts either written by the owner himself or by the hand of fellow contemporary poets. These are clean copies with few or no layers of revision, but still relevant to a certain kind of genetic criticism without drafts (GRÉSILLON, 1993), focused on the interstices of scribal activity and distributed authorship in the early modern period. The article examines littleexplored documentation from the national archive Torre do Tombo, thus broadening the scope of genetic studies into the realm of Portuguese baroque literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

bibliographic article tries to rescue the character Constança Manuel, bringing to the discussion literary texts, namely by female authors, that dialogue with the historical construction that kept her on the margins of that same history. Therefore, in order to undertake this bibliographic description, we will consider some contemporary perspectives around the feminine, without disregarding points of view established by the historiographical discourse of past centuries, since we are far from the time constituted by the history of the character for almost seven centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a practical approach to combining content and language teaching in one subject class, an avenue most commonly pursued at primary and secondary school level. Nevertheless, it seems very relevant for university instruction as well. This paper centers on how CLIL was used to benefit classes in Portuguese literature given at the Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies, University of Warsaw in 2020/2021 academic year. The materials discussed in the article were authored by Anna Działak-Szubińska and José Carlos Dias and refer to early modern era. Some theoretical insights into CLIL will also be provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En 1927, la revista española La Gaceta Literaria publicó el conocido editorial titulado "Madrid, meridiano intelectual de Hispanoamérica", en el que se defendía la necesidad de que Madrid fuera el referente intelectual de esa región. Esa misma postura, con una profunda carga ideológica, estuvo también presente en la base de otra polémica menos conocida pero también de gran importancia, la que mantuvo en la península ibérica con Portugal y Cataluña, territorios a los que la publicación dirigida por Ernesto Giménez Caballero se acercó con el interés de sumarlos a la causa de una política cultural centralista con sede irrenunciable en Madrid. A través del acercamiento a Cataluña, mediante una supuesta estrategia de defensa de la pluralidad peninsular, se tejía en realidad una orquestada campaña basada en la unidad inquebrantable de España, cuya cultura sería ofrecida—aunque con resultados igualmente negativos—en Portugal e Hispanoamérica, como una posibilidad real de oposición a la hegemonía internacional francesa. In 1927, the Spanish magazine La Gaceta Literaria published the well-known editorial entitled "Madrid, meridiano intelectual de Hispanoamérica," which defended the need for Madrid to be the intellectual point of reference for Latin America. This same position, with a deep ideological charge, was also present at the base of another, lesser known but also very important, debate, the one promoted in the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal and Catalonia, territories which this publication directed by Ernesto Giménez Caballero approached with the interest of adding them to the cause of a centralist cultural policy with an inevitable seat in Madrid. Through the approach to Catalonia, by means of a supposed strategy of defense of the peninsular plurality, an orchestrated campaign was actually mounted based on the unbreakable unity of Spain, whose culture would be presented—although with equally negative results—to Portugal and Latin America, as a real possibility for opposing French international hegemony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the Nativity of Christ as a background, this article seeks to draw attention to the various and diverse re-readings and updates that this narrative was getting to know in Portuguese literature, showing how the Bible is configured as a macro-text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article consists of an analysis of the representation of the feminine in the novel Os cus de Judas, by the Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes, under the perspective of Derridean spectropoetics, in articulation with the demands and questions presented by the feminist critic. This study revealed, from the meticulous reading of the object in approximation with the reflection of Derrida (1994) on the motif of the spectrum, that the narratorprotagonist of the work is a man haunted by spectral images of the Colonial War in Angola, in which he served as a doctor of the Portuguese Army, and of women who went through his life, from childhood to adulthood, these being catalyzed by the encounter with his female interlocutor, also a spectral figure, who acts as his mirror, in an explanation of his memories of the war. However, although they are essential in the work, it was found, based on the works of Garraio (2020), Kilomba (2019), Ribeiro (2019 and 2020) and Zolin (2005), among others, that these women, in general, are portrayed in reductionist ways, unfolding the extreme situations of violence experienced by many of them in the narrator's memories in a symbolic violence exerted by himself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Iberian Middle Age it was thought that the superiority of the nobles over the lower people was related mostly to blood: the nobles, because of their "elevated blood", would be "naturally" compelled to seek honor, while the plebeians, due to their "lower blood", would tend towards vices. Such was the opinion and custom of the audience of the chronicles written by Gomes Eanes de Zurara in the fifteenth century in Portugal. Observing such fact and following rhetorical precepts, Zurara articulates the good ascendancy with a virtuous or vicious conduct to, respectively, praise or vituperate the nobles as characters of their historical narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study is to interpret in the narrative Miura by Miguel Torga (1907-1985), the suffering of the humanized bull and its participation, together Malhado, Bronco and Mira, in a bullfiht that reflects human bestiality in deling with animals, which are sarificed in a popular entertainment show. The writer denounces the wildness of the celebration, which intensifies with the colossa entry of the bullfighter into the arena and the final apotheosis with Miuras's self-immolation. The analysis will be based on the symbolism of the bull, bullfghting (aesthetic, passionate and sacred aspects), the tradition of the bullfighting in Portugal, the legislation and the engagement of the writer (Sartre) in complaints about bloody acts against animals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on historian Gilbert Joseph's historiographical balance of the Latin American Cold War and influences and resources across national borders. It mentions Latin America was experiencing an accelerated process of radicalisation, polarisation, and authoritarian regression by virtue of local and regional reactions to the Cuban Revolution. It also mentions Spanish and Portuguese literature on populism and revolutionary movements.

Portuguese immigration in Brazil was portrayed by authors from both countries, but these representations have been little studied. In this article, approximations and distances in the imaginary of this migration are discussed based on books by three Portuguese who lived on Brazilian soil in the 19th and 20th centuries. Five images of migration - as slavery, luck, maturation, disappointment and divided soul - are seen and analyzed in the fiction and non-fiction prose of Gomes de Amorim, Ferreira de Castro and Miguel Torga. Such imagery is contrasted with that of authors who did not immigrate, such as Camilo Castelo Branco, Ramalho Ortigão and Eça de Queirós, and with the conceptions of Eduardo Lourenço and Vitorino Nemésio, who lived a certain period in Brazil and wrote about the Portuguese presence in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I analyze contemporary narratives in which cinema is present as an “intermedial reference”. In this regard, I draw on intermediality theories to study the books Onde andará Dulce Veiga? (1990), written by the Brazilian author Caio Fernando Abreu, and Short Movies, by the Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares. My aim is to investigate some types of exchange between literature and cinema, and to highlight the possible advantages this process brings for both medias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two thematic lines: the omnipresence of the theme of the maritime voyage in Portuguese culture - which António Quadros calls the 'myth of Henry', - and its inflections in literature, more specifically, in Camões's The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) and Fernão Mendes Pinto's Pilgrimage (Peregrinação) were examined. Thus, we focus on the state of the art about the topic of Henryism/the maritime voyage, taking into account the perspective of today's Portuguese scholars, and we look at how this theme is expressed in The Lusiads and Pilgrimage, thereby proving that these Renaissance works remain vital for the actual imaginary of the Portuguese people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines two Portuguese novels about colonialism and its legacies: António Lobo Antunes's Fado Alexandrino (1983) and Aida Gomes's Os Pretos de Pousaflores (The Blacks from Pousaflores) (2011). Fado Alexandrino perpetuates the use of Black women's raped bodies as a plot device to represent colonial violence, while Gomes's narrative empowers racialized victims of sexual abuse and challenges dominant public memories of the Colonial War. A close reading of these novels, contextualized against the background of scholarly debates about the representation of sexual violence, exposes both the perils and potential of cultural works to preserve the memory of rape in armed conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gomes Eanes de Zurara's 1450 Crónica da Tomada de Ceuta recalls the history of the city of Ceuta as told by "Santo Isidro, e mestre Pedro, e Dom Lucas de Tuy." While Isidro (Isidore of Seville) and Lucas de Tuy are well-known authorities on the history of the Goths in Spain, scholarship has yet to identify "mestre Pedro" with confidence. In fact, the proposals that exist come with an array of challenges. The present article thus contends that "mestre Pedro" actually refers to Pedro de Corral, a Castilian courtier and the author of the Crónica sarracina from the first few decades of the fifteenth century. Due to the subject matter of the work and the cultural exchange between the courts of Castile, Aragon, and Portugal, I argue that Zurara would have likely encountered Corral's text. And, if the citation is in fact Corral's, Zurara's reference could change how modern scholars understand both works' stake in history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An adventurer, soldier and great poet, Luís Vaz de Camões (1524- 1580) arrived in India in 1555 and remained there till 1567, with ups and mishaps. The author of the Portuguese national epic poem, Camões recounted in a marvellous poetic form the heroic crossing of Vasco da Gama, who reached the Calicut coasts in 1498, skirting for the very first time the Cabo da Boa Esperança (Cape of Good Hope). The paper focuses on the analysis of some ottavas from the 7th canto of Os Lusíadas, in which the arrival of Portuguese sailors and the first meeting with emissaries from the Zamorin are narrated. These passages, concerning the religious and cultural traditions of Malabar (but Indian in general) and its political organization, will be the starting point for a reflection on Indo-Portuguese relationships, as seen not from a historical source, but from a little-studied literary one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we propose a brief reading in expanded field of Caderno de Memórias Coloniais (Colonial Memories Notebook) (2009), by Isabela Figueiredo, novel in intimate writing that passes in Mozambique and Portugal, during Mozambique's neocolonialism and post-independence. The concept of expanded field, elaborated by Rosalind Krauss (1979), requests that the critics have an eye to the form, and a reflection about what the form imposes and wishes to provoke. As such, the postmodern happens when the artist does not interrogate herself about the means of expression, which does not determine the praxis anymore, but become routes in favor of an expression, strategy possible to situate in Caderno de Memórias Coloniais. Roberto Vecchi (2008) already had indicated, in theoretical key, the existence of a strategy of Portuguese domination from a disruptive colonial project, thematic present in the novel that, as we are going to see, appears combined to its narrative form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the lack of art history literature written in the Portuguese language. He mentions the marginality of Portuguese and Brazilian art, the lack of an art canon to inspire research, and the sense of periphery that Portuguese speakers feel when dealing with English-speaking scholars.

Cesário Verde (1855-1886) is a poet who was dedicated to the development of a realistic aesthetic; he valued colloquial vocabulary and speech. Like Cesário Verde's poetry rethinks the great themes of the Portuguese imaginary, this work wants to verify elements of Lusism in his work, analyzing the approach of the subject of "Saudade" and establishing points of intertextuality with the Western tradition. The studied corpus is Poemas Reunidos (2010). The theme of saudade is taken in this work from the Eduardo Lourenço idea (1999). The lusism concept adopted is based on Padilha (2005). The intertextuality is treated according to Carvalhal (2006), and the poet dialogues with João de Deus, Balzac, and Camões. He is quoted by Eça de Queirós, Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa, Mário Cesariny, Miguéis, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Manuel Bandeira, among many others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We observe the presence of work in the Seniana work, in different ways. Thus, recalling that work is as broad a theme as the meanings of the word, we intend to observe how it is represented in the work of Jorge de Sena, from the location of a group of poems in which there are, among other issues, different situations of workers inserted in Capitalism, notably set in the twentieth century, as well as examples of the relationships and implications of work in human life. For this, the writings of the Sena, scholars of different areas such as Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse, among others, constitute the theoretical and critical basis of this work. We will bring the criticism of the poet to the exploitation implemented by this system, rescuing the place of work in the construction of man while being endowed with intelligence and producer of culture, which changes while transforming nature, according to Marx. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O artigo propõe uma análise do romance O Bobo, de Alexandre Herculano, em comparação com Ivanhoé, de Walter Scott, e Notre Dame de Paris, de Victor Hugo. Apesar de alguns críticos já terem se voltado à leitura comparativa das obras desses escritores, costuma-se focar no estudo de fontes e influências, procurando associar Herculano ao Romantismo. Propõe-se, neste estudo, uma leitura comparativa divergente da usualmente feita, como defende Santiago (2000) e Carvalhal (2006), buscando compreender as especificidades históricas desses autores, indo além de categorias estanques de escolas literárias. Pretende-se, com este trabalho, propor um novo olhar sobre a obra de Herculano, mormente na maneira como ele retratou o passado em O Bobo, distinta da forma como Scott e Hugo o fizeram. Concluise que a diferença nesse retrato que fazem do passado tem relação direta com a forma como esses escritores percebem não apenas o passado de seu país, mas também o seu presente. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay aims to analyse A instalação do medo e Índice médio de felicidade, two novels about the social and emotional effects of the most recent economic crisis, which began in 2008. Both are examples of how the Portuguese art was infuenced by that crisis as well as of some relevant transformations occurring in Portuguese contemporary literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to address the reflexes of The masters and the slaves (1933), an essay by Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, in the representation of Brazil expressed in the travelogue book Brazilian Breviary (1991), written by the renowned Portuguese writer Agustina Bessa-Luís, based on three recurring ideas in both works: a) there is no racism in Brazil; b) Portugal were a less aggressive colonizer; c) eroticism permeates the relations between the Brazilian people. The work of Gilberto Freyre is praised in Brazil Breviary: Bessa-Luís says The masters and the slaves is a "wonderful book", what mean it's a reference text for the investigation of the Brazilian reality. Considering this, the objective of this work is to reflect on how the dialogue between the mentioned works can lead to the reinforcement of stereotypes and prejudices about Brazil and its people and, from this discussion, to think about the misunderstandings created by concepts as Lusotropicalism and Portuguese-Brazilian community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Preamble introduces and discusses nine literary-critical articles contributed to Part II of Studies on Spain, Portugal and Latin America in Memory of William C. Atkinson, each of which, through the country, period, topic and/or author dealt with, reflects in some way or degree William Atkinson’s own most significant scholarly interests. First, two articles by Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta and David G. Frier, deal with Portugal and its literature—Camões’ sonnets in the one case, and a novel by Camilo Castelo Branco, in the other. Then follow three studies by Anne Holloway, D. Gareth Walters and Margaret Tejerizo relating to modern Spain’s literature, culture and society, which discuss respectively a novella by Ángeles Vicente, the late poetry of Antonio Machado and Chekhov’s theatre as recently performed in Spanish before audiences in Madrid. Next come three articles concerned with works emanating from modern Latin America: a short novel by the Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández is studied by Frank Lough; the Brazilian poetry of Mário Quintana is edited, translated and interpreted by the late Giovanni Pontiero; and Nuala Finnegan analyses Rafael Bonilla’s documentary film, La carta (2010), which seeks to elucidate the causes and the consequences of gender-related murders (feminicidios) being perpetrated in present-day Mexico. In ‘Re-Writing the Estado Novo: Antonio Tabucchi’s Sostiene [Afirma] Pereira’, Bernard McGuirk achieves, inter alia, an informative assessment of the state of affairs in Portugal under Salazar in the late 1930s; moreover, through deftly interwoven allusions he sheds further light on the attitudes and personality of his former professor at Glasgow University, William Atkinson. McGuirk’s multifaceted study, which on one level is interdisciplinary and comparative, and on another socio-linguistic and literary-theoretical, concludes not only Part II, but the entire Festschrift. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the pre-eminence of the sonnet within Portuguese literary production and, in particular, on the sonnets of Camões, their critical reception in English translation and the frequency of their publication in journals, poetry collections and anthologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the configuration of the novel itself and indications on two essays of literary criticism, this paper intends to analyse the importance of the space of the house, as well as its significations, in the novel Alma (1995), by Manuel Alegre. For this, passages of the text are confronted mainly with proposals that postulate the house as a central place in the individual's experience, such The Human Space, by Otto Friedrich Bollnow; and The Poetics of Space and Earth and Reveries of Repose: An Essay on Images of Interiority, by Gaston Bachelard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the 44th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution in 2018.

In the context of a reflection on the concept of error in genetic criticism, the present study seeks to elucidate how the analysis of the authorial amendments of Camilo Castelo Branco’s manuscripts has contributed to the knowledge about the author’s writing practices and the creation process. In this sense, we present the typology of the analysis of the authors’ amendments that served as a basis for the Novelas do Minho’s genetic study (PIMENTA, 2017a), clarifying the contribution of each of its categories to the genetic analysis. This method stems from the model applied by Ivo Castro to the genesis of Amor de Perdição (CASTRO, 2007) and incorporates some of the concepts theorized by Almuth Grésillon in the context of the French genetic criticism (GRÉSILLON, 1994). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Angolan author Ondjaki, born in 1977, after Angola’s independence, borrows the memories of his parents’ generation of anti-colonialist revolutionaries to consecrate the image of a post-national, autonomous Angolan nation in fiction written in the twenty-first century. AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Soviético (2008) transmits an idealized vision of a revolutionary childhood in order to bolster the post-national image of the Angolan state in the twenty-first century, when neither the author nor his readership lives in Angola, and the government is no longer idealistic but corrupt and oppressive. The short story collection Sonhos azuis pelas esquinas (2014), exploring the author’s globalized identity, employs the vantage point of the globalized present to unravel the memories borrowed from the narrator’s parents in order to come to terms with stark realities of the 1980s obscured by the earlier work’s ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The shipwreck accounts were written mainly by survivors of catastrophic shipwrecks on overseas voyages to America and India, and therefore belong to the huge corpus of works written in the 16th century about exploring and conquering new territories. Unlike the most of the written sources of the period, these accounts do not celebrate the overseas enterprise, they bring a new, tragic perspective and describe the dangers and misery of overseas voyages. The shipwreck accounts are often seen as a specific genre and can be studied from the perspective of travel narrative as well as from the perspective of autobiographical writing. There are many common motifs and elements in these accounts such as the physical transformation of the castaway, the interpretation of the shipwreck as a punishment, and the motive of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whether as a romantic depiction or with a pretension to realism, rural life was a classic topic throughout the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. A few writers represented the impending threats to the natural environment as a consequence of human actions, such as deforestation and poaching. More recently, literary landscape incorporates the profound changes the country has undergone in the last decades, and a global environmental reality at a European and worldwide level. Settings are mostly urban, though some nostalgia for the rural and the 'return to nature' can be seen, in line with the current culture of our days. From examples of landscape descriptions in fiction and non-fiction, this article focuses on the way in which Portuguese writers have valued the natural and cultural elements according to their literary skills and motives, and the cultural framework of their times. Excerpts from canonical writers and respected current authors are analysed: Alexandre Herculano, Júlio Dinis, Eça de Queiroz, Fialho de Almeida, Raul Brandão, Aquilino Ribeiro, Miguel Torga, José Saramago, Lídia Jorge, Mário de Carvalho and Rui Cardoso Martins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the divulgation of the first version of the National Curricular Common Base published by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) in September 2015 and second version in April 2016, this text is developed in a critical reflection on how literary studies in Portuguese are indicated in this document, its presence and importance in Brazilian primary and secondary education, with the absence of a truly broad and effective project of literary interculturality. The treatment given, in this Base, to Portuguese literature in the plural literary formation of young Brazilian readers. The importance of diversity as a canon in the contemporary understanding of Portuguese language literatures and their teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Portuguese-language literature produced from the dual-island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, one of the most familiar figures to emerge is the African emerald cuckoo, called ossobó in the local Forro language. This paper traces how the ossobó passed through oral traditions and into the hands of poets and rationalists to be inscribed in the pantheon of great African literary animals and national symbols. Because ossobós were a symbol born of the local oral traditions, and therefore inherently local, as well as a symbol without rigidly defined features, the bird could be employed across time, space, language, and genre as writers grappled with the myths and historical contexts of their own day. By grounding ephemeral discourses in the native oral culture, the ossobó symbolically authenticates literature as uniquely Santomean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]