[EN]Paulo Lemos Horta looks at Renaissance Portuguese poet Luis de Camões’ epic The Lusiads (which celebrates Vasco da Gama’s discovery of a route to India) in light of the successive misreadings that fashioned the text a work of world literature. Beginning in the 19th century, German Romantic readers, attentive to Camões’s travels in the Hormuz straight and India discerned (or read into the poem) Persian and Indian influences. This would determine the later interpretation of the poem by its English, then American translators. Focusing on this tradition, Horta explores how a national poem can be radically transformed and re-contextualized into a global text, to the point of being read almost against itself. Taking the Romantic view to its l...
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This text aims at analysing and comparing poems that are characterized by a “romance” way of telling...
A escrita de António Lopes Mendes (1835-1894) revela como, no nosso século XIX, se vivenciou o orie...
Several documents from the Archive of the Catedral of Santiago let us define, with some accuracy, th...
At the tum of the century, the fashion far everything Indian demonstrate the importance of exoticism...
The phenomenon of modernism (Art Nouveau), developed in Catalonia along the last transfer of century...
From the 16th to the 18th centuries, the term pariah, coined by Western travelers, imperial official...
Many centuries before Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902) and Rudyard Kipling’s Kim...
One of the most striking characteristics of modernity in Ibero-American literature is the emergence ...
What interest can today have to speak of Epic as a literary genre? How far can the norms of a canoni...
Desde a década de 70 do século XX que académicos, ensaístas e críticos têm debatido o cânone literár...
Mais conhecido pelas suas traduções feitas do francês do que pelas suas obras literárias, Fernando L...
Rabindranath Tagore [1861–1941] va ser un escriptor i filòsof hindú. El seu apropament al cristianis...
The statement of the early Greek philosophers which says that the material world we know is the resu...
Jules Laforgue (1860 – 1887) was considered an author of the literary Modernism whose writings touch...
The nineteenth-century concern with establishing the idea of literature led to the (re)discovery of ...
This text aims at analysing and comparing poems that are characterized by a “romance” way of telling...
A escrita de António Lopes Mendes (1835-1894) revela como, no nosso século XIX, se vivenciou o orie...
Several documents from the Archive of the Catedral of Santiago let us define, with some accuracy, th...