Portuguese Studies articles from January 1 1999

Portuguese Studies archives from January 1 1999

Alfonso X's 'Non me posso pagar tanto'.(Galician-Portuguese secular lyrical poetry)
January 1, 1999... The medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric takes its name from the language of the poems, not from the nationality of the poets. Some poets were Galicians, some were Portuguese, and some, like Alfonso the Learned, King of Castile and Leon, were...

Notes on medical scholarship and the broad intellectual milieu in sixteenth-century Portugal.(analysis of Dialogo da perfeycam e partes que sam necessarias ao bom medico )
January 1, 1999... The Portuguese sixteenth-century work on medical deontology, Dialogo da perfeycam e partes que sam necessarias ao bom medico of Jeronimo de Miranda, consists of a conversation between a physician and an elderly professor of rhetoric and Greek....

On royal infallibility.(Portuguese text, Cronica Geral de Espanha de 1344)
January 1, 1999... non creades lisongero nin profacador sotil; (Poema de Alfonso Onceno, p. 132) The second, Portuguese version of Cronica Geral de Espanha de 1344 opens with the story of Noah, and after a general account of ancient world...

'On the Indo-Portuguese of Ceylon': a translation of a Hugo Schuchardt Manuscript.
January 1, 1999... This paper consists of two parts, my introduction and the translation of the nineteenth-century Hugo Schuchardt Manuscript, 'Zum Indoportugiesischen von Ceylon' on Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole. This manuscript forms part of the Hugo Schuchardt...

Who was who in Madeira at the time of the second British occupation in 1807.(analysis of Memorandum of Characters 1807)
January 1, 1999... During the Napoleonic Wars the British twice occupied the island of Madeira. The first occasion lasted from July 1801 to January 1802 following the short war between Portugal and Spain--the so-called 'War of the Oranges' which saw the Spanish...

Onstage, offstage. Women and slaves in the theatre of protest.(portrayals of women and slaves in Brazilian plays and musicals in the 19th century)
January 1, 1999... The change in women's roles and in the status of slaves in Brazilian society during the formation of the free labour market in the nineteenth century contributed to a re-definition of patriarchy and of patriarchal control. Through the medium of...

The good, the bad and the ugly: female transgression and punishment in O Primo Basilio.
January 1, 1999... There seems to be some consensus amongst the critical establishment that the literary works of Eca de Queiros in general and those of his realist phase in particular do not offer a promising area for feminist critical revision. For example, in...

Imagined endings: national catastrophe in the fiction of Eca de Queiros.
January 1, 1999... Much of Eca de Queiros's writing is informed by the romantic and post-romantic model of Portuguese history that originated in Alexandre Herculano's concept of two great cycles: a cycle of growth from the 'birth' of the nation in the twelfth...

Novo Almanach de Lembrancas Luso Brasileiro: mirror of a culture.
January 1, 1999... This essay analyses the presence of Portuguese cultural and moral values of the late nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth century in the pages of the Novo Almanach de Lembrancas Luso Brasileiro. This extremely popular almanac...

'Amo-te mais, quando estou so': fantasy and femininity in the poetry of Antonio Nobre and Florbela Espanca.
January 1, 1999... O Portugal da minha infancia Nao sei que e, amo-te a distancia, Amo-te mais, quando estou so. . . Qual de vos teve na Vida Uma jornada parecida, Ou assim, como eu, uma Avo? (1) Antonio Nobre's poem 'Viagens na...

'Crabbedness' and the backwards advance to Portugal: hyphenation in and the poetic impulse of Fernando Pessoa's 35 Sonnets.
January 1, 1999... He that goes back does, since he goes, advance, Though he doth not advance who goeth back, And he that seeks, though he on nothing chance, May still by words be said to find a lack. (Sonnet XXXIII, 1-4) (1) Perhaps...

The old lie: some Portuguese contemporary novels on the colonial wars in Africa (1961-74).
January 1, 1999... Es schwinden, es fallen die leidenden Menschen Blindlings von einer Stunde zur andern, WieWasser von Klippe geworfen, Jahrlang ins Ungewisse hinab. ('Schicksalslied', Holderlin) If you could hear, at every jolt,...

There and back again.(journeys as themes in poems of T.S. Eliot, Manuel Bandiera, Fernando Pessoa, Joao Cabral)
January 1, 1999... Thomas Stearns Eliot, anima naturaliter Bostoniensis but born by accident (as the Portuguese like to put it) in St Louis, Missouri, was obliged from time to time to journey back from his essential to his accidental roots. (1) I imagine him en...

A tribute to Jose Saramago.
January 1, 1999... The success of Jose Saramago as a fiction writer has been built in less than two decades. It started with the publication of his novel, Levantado do Chao, in 1980, culminating in his apotheosis in Oslo last year, where he received the Nobel...

The subversion of history in Memorial do Convento.
January 1, 1999... The problem of the relationship between fiction and ideology conjures up Chekov's famous statement: 'A novel is a palace: we should be able to walk inside it without feeling surprised or bored as if we were inside a museum.' (1) In fact, if we...

Jose Saramago's stone boat: Celtic analogues and popular mythology.
January 1, 1999... At the end of Jose Saramago's A Jangada de Pedra, the four surviving protagonists of the novel are faced with the question of how to continue their journey of discovery after the death of one of their number, Pedro Orce. Shortly before this,...

On translation, and on translating Saramago in particular.
January 1, 1999... Translation is often spoken of as if it were a process separate from original writing, as not quite the real thing, a kind of copycat art. I believe that every translation is a re-writing of a text and that a good translator must also be a good...

Introductory note.
January 1, 1999... Four articles published in this issue of Portuguese Studies focus on Jose Saramago, who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. This is a simple homage to a major writer whose work is helping to attract long overdue international...

Orpheus and Power: the Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988.(Book Review)
January 1, 1999... Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988. MICHAEL GEORGE HANCHARD. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. x+203 pp. Paperback 13.95 [pounds sterling]. The Social History of the...