Portuguese Studies articles from March 22 2008

Portuguese Studies archives from March 22 2008

Introductory note.(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... With the publication of the current issue, Portuguese Studies completes the first stage in the redefinition of its identity as a journal which started with the re-launch under new editorship. With it we welcome the colleagues who accepted our...

Miracles, martyrs and the cult of Henry the crusader in Lisbon.
March 22, 2008... Abstract. In 1147 a fleet of English, Flemish and German crusaders en route to the Holy Land paused to assist Portuguese troops in an attack on Muslim-held Lisbon. During the subsequent siege a number of visiting crusaders were killed and...

Music and the 'teatro de cordel': in search of a paradigm.
March 22, 2008... Abstract. Particularly in the eighteenth century, as an alternative to opera as such, there are a number of indigenous traditions of musical theatre: the zarzuela in Spain, the opera comique in France, the ballad opera in England, the Singspiel...

Is the absurd a male-dominated terrain? Pessoa and Beckett as case studies.(Fernando Pessoa, Samuel Beckett)(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract. The present article examines the notion of the absurd as it transpires in the form of Modernist literature; more specifically, in the works of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) and Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). On the basis of how these...

Poetry and technique: concrete poetry in Brazil.
March 22, 2008... Abstract. Drawing on the writings of leading participants such as Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, this article examines the emergence of Concrete Poetry in postwar Brazil. Although literacy was then rapidly increasing, the status of poetry was...

Causes of the decline of the peninsular peoples in the last three centuries.
March 22, 2008... Causes of the Decline of the Peninsular Peoples in the Last Three Centuries ANTERO DE QUENTAL Abstract. In his lecture of 27 May, the second of the series of 'Democratic Conferences' promoted at the Lisbon Casino in May-June 1871 by the...

The modernist movement.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract. In 'The Modernist Movement', the leading figure of Brazil's 1920s avant-garde generation offers a self-critical post-mortem of the modernist adven ture, two decades on. Andrade first evokes the energy, turbulence and social character...

Recent translations.
March 22, 2008... The following list includes those works by Portuguese authors, and also those by African and Timorese authors writing in Portuguese, which were translated into English with the support of the Portuguese Institute for Books and Libraries, and...