Portuguese Studies articles from January 1 2004

Portuguese Studies archives from January 1 2004

Introductory note.
January 1, 2004... Volume 20 of Portuguese Studies is the last under my editorship and includes an index of all articles and review articles published in the journal over the last twenty years. After my retirement as Camoens Professor at the end of September...

The siege of Lisbon and the second crusade.
January 1, 2004... At one time the participation of a northern fleet in the capture of Lisbon in 1147 was seen by most commentators as an unplanned matter: the Portuguese ruler Afonso Henriques merely took advantage of the fact that a crusading fleet had put into...

Light in darkness: Gil Vicente's Barca do Inferno.
January 1, 2004... In a recent book, Alan Ayckbourn observes that 'comedy is an essential part of any play'. (1) He asserts that 'I certainly don't decide when I sit down to write: today I'm going to write a comedy. Simply, I'm going to write a play. The degree...

Mozambique Island: the rise and decline of an East African coastal city, 1500-1700.
January 1, 2004... Port-cities, it has been claimed, have special characteristics which distinguish them from other urban centres. This special character is derived from their situation at the point where economies and societies based on the mainland meet the...

The Portuguese in Asia in British historiography.
January 1, 2004... Over three centuries, from the early seventeenth until well into the twentieth, English and later British people saw themselves as united with the Portuguese in a common enterprise in Asia, but also sought to distance themselves from the...

Segovia and Portugal in the seventeenth century.
January 1, 2004... That most complex phenomenon, Sebastianism, confirms the fact that Portuguese manifestations of dissent and discontent with the House of Austria had a distinctly prophetic tinge. It was just the same in Segovia or Madrid as in Lisbon. Possibly...

Between fact and fiction: narratives of monsters in eighteenth-century Portugal.
January 1, 2004... Reports of monstrous beings were published regularly in Portugal throughout the first half of the eighteenth century. (1) They were so popular that, in a spoof report from this period, a poor and starving student from the University of Coimbra...

Ad maiorem gloriam ... feminae: Enlightened women and the introduction of models in Portugal during the second half of the eighteenth century.
January 1, 2004... This paper, which derives from an ongoing research project on Enlightened Portuguese women of the eighteenth century and reflects the results so far obtained, is not to be regarded as conclusive. (1) Our purpose is to offer some comments on the...

Lisbon and Vienna: the correspondence of the Countess of Vimieiro and her circle.
January 1, 2004... Within the framework of a research project into women and the Enlightenment in the second half of the eighteenth century in Portugal, the Grupo Galabra is developing a study on Teresa de Mello Breyner, the Condessa do Vimieiro, also known as...

Oliveira Martins: the spectres in his historiography.
January 1, 2004... In his historical narrative, Oliveira Martins consciously distances himself from the mould established by the genre of the chronicle, which was held in high esteem by the medieval tradition which dated back to the record-keeping of ancient...

The sexual being in Charneca em Flor.
January 1, 2004... In form, Florbela Espanca's literary work is incongruously traditional, mostly composed of sonnets of standard Italian form which contrast with the thematic freedom expressed in their writing: a deliberate attempt perhaps by the poet ultimately...

Gabriel de Oliveira's 'Ha Festa na Mouraria' and the fado Novo's criticism of the Estado Novo's demolition of the Baixa Mouraria.
January 1, 2004... The Estado Novo's plans for urban rehabilitation in Lisbon, (1) carried out by Duarte Pacheco's 'Plano de Urbanizacao e Expansao da Cidade' and Faria da Costa's 'Salvacao Barreto' programme, justified the demolition of historic neighborhoods...

War as an internal and external battleground in Alamo Oliveira's Ate Hoje (Memorias de Cao).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... The Portuguese colonial war that began in 1961 and lasted until 1974 is the subject of many novels examining the role of the individual in a war that was neither uniformly desired by the authors of these narratives, nor easy to come to terms...

Jorge de Sena on Cinema: some further insights into the genesis of O Fisico Prodigioso?(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... The modernity of Jorge de Sena's novella is often obscured by its pseudo-historical setting and a narrative peopled with knights and damsels, alchemists and inquisitors to such an extent that the richness of the text can be mistakenly...

Translation as a metaphor for our times: postcolonialism, borders and identities.
January 1, 2004... Translation studies, in their early days, confined the notion of translation within very narrow limits, the limits of what has been called a 'language meets language' model, restricted to relationships between texts within interlinguistic...

Rereading Pepetela's O Desejo de Kianda after 11 September 2001: signs and distractions.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... How could the significance of a text that involves the inexplicable collapse of high-rise buildings, interpreted as a terrorist attack, not acquire some new meaning, or at least force, after 11 September 2001? Pepetela's 1995 novel, O Desejo de...

Dining with panthers.(Paula Rego's Map of Memory: National and Sexual Politics)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Paula Rego's Map of Memory: National and Sexual Politics. By Maria Manuel Lisboa. London: Ashgate, 2003. 240 pp. + 100 b & w and 20 colour illustrations. Hardback [pounds sterling]52.50. Are love and history compatible? That is the marriage...

Bibliographic and research information.
January 1, 2004... The following pages list publications and theses, in English, relating to the Portuguese-speaking world which were published or presented, for the most part, in 2003 to early 2004. Some slightly earlier items are included as are some theses...