Portuguese Studies articles from March 22 2007

Portuguese Studies archives from March 22 2007

Introductory note.
March 22, 2007... This first number of volume 23 has a strong visual slant, both thematically and literally. In the first of the five essays with a Brazilian emphasis, Maria Manuela Tenreiro traces the career of Carlos Juliao, a widely-travelled Italian officer...

Military encounters in the eighteenth century: Carlos Juliao and racial representations in the Portuguese empire.
March 22, 2007... Abstract. This article analyses two illustrations produced by the Italian soldier and artist, Carlos Juliao, who served in the Portuguese colonial army as an engineer during the second half of the eighteenth century. The images came to the...

The traveller and the Brazilian landscape.
March 22, 2007... Abstract. Drawing on British and other landscape painting, as well as the travel writings of such people as Mary Graham, governess to the Emperor D. Pedro's daughter, this article examines representations of Brazil by Europeans in the early...

Prescriptive observation and illustration of Brazil: Victor Frond's photographic project (1857-61).(Essay)
March 22, 2007... Abstract. This article examines the career and significance of the early French photographer, Victor Frond (1821-81), who fled to Rio after the coup of Louis Napoleon (1851), gaining the patronage of the Imperial Court. In collaboration with...

Versions of the imperial romance: King Solomon's Mines and As Minas de Salomao.
March 22, 2007... Abstract. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1885) and Eca de Queiros's free translation of it (1889-90) were written at significant moments in the European partition of Africa for both Britain and Portugal: the Berlin Conference of 1884-85...

'Queda que as mulheres tem para os tolos': translation or text by Machado de Assis?(Essay)
March 22, 2007... Abstract. This article shows that the first work published by Machado de Assis in book form, Queda que as mulheres tem para os tolos (1861), is indeed a translation of the 1858 edition of Victor Henaux's essay De l'amour des femmes pour les...

Augusto dos anjos e o anti-tropicalismo.
March 22, 2007... Abstract. Augusto dos Anjos (b. Paraiba, 1884, d. Minas Gerais, 1914) was a very singular Brazilian poet. During his short life he was author of a single book (Eu, 1912), and recognition was slow, coming only from the end of the 1920s. Today,...

Dionysus or Apollo? The heteronym Antonio Mora as moment of Nietzsche's reception by Pessoa.
March 22, 2007... Abstract. While no books by Nietzsche were found in his library, there is evidence that Fernando Pessoa was strongly influenced, positively and negatively, by secondary readings of his work. Pessoa's minor heteronym, Antonio Mora, appears to be...