Education and the Boarding School Novel

Education and the Boarding School Novel
Author: Filipe Delfim Santos
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2017-01-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9463007415

"In this book, the author contributes to genre theory, space theory (suggesting allotopia for heterotopia, or describing hypertopia versus hypotopia), the study of authorship, the formation and education novels, and develops such concepts as Leidensgeschichte or the Telemachus complex. Based on Portuguese writer José Régio’s novel A Drop of Blood (1945), he studies the cultural meaning of the immersion paradigm in education and some historical and anthropological features of boarding schools and other institutions of confinement. This book is of interest to those studying the philosophy of education, masculinist nineteenth-century educational theories—in particular about masculine friendships—the place of the Bildungsroman in genre theory, Foucault’s ideas on ‘other spaces’, and the implications of narcissism, melancholia, and nostalgia for the trauma narrative."

The Triumph of Brazilian Modernism

The Triumph of Brazilian Modernism
Author: Saulo Gouveia
Publisher: North Carolina Studies in the
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781469609997

Triumph of Brazilian Modernism: The Metanarrative of Emancipation and Counter-Narratives

A Repertoire of Contemporary Portuguese Poetry

A Repertoire of Contemporary Portuguese Poetry
Author: Victor K. Mendes
Publisher: Tagus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-11-30
Genre: Portuguese poetry
ISBN: 9781933227085

A critical look at younger poets and a revisit of the major poets, Luís de Camóes and Fernado Pessoa, through articles and reviews

The Forbidden Kingdom

The Forbidden Kingdom
Author: Jan Jacob Slauerhoff
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1908968753

A celebrated Danish novelist explores European history and colonization through the lives of two men separated by centuries—a shipwrecked wireless operator and an exiled Portuguese poet Slauerhoff’s The Forbidden Kingdom is a blend of historical chronicle, fiction and commentary, bringing together the seemingly unrelated lives of a twentieth century ship’s radio operator and the sixteenth century Portuguese poet-in-exile, Luis Camoes. Slauerhoff draws his reader into a dazzling world of exoticism, betrayal, and exile, where past and present merge and the possibility of death is never far away. Through a narrative that evolves into a critique of European history, culture, and colonialism, Slauerhoff speculates about the lessons to be learnt from history.

Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World

Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World
Author: Margaret Beissinger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1999-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780520210387

Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.

Visual Faith

Visual Faith
Author: William A. Dyrness
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0801022975

An intriguing, substantive look into the relationship between the church and the world of art.

Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda
Author: José Saramago
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 357
Release: 1998-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547537174

“A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.” —The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church an expansive new convent, should they intercede with God to give him an heir. A lonely priest works in maniacal solitude on his Passarola, a heretical flying machine he hopes will allow him to soar far from the madness surrounding him. A young couple, brought together by chance, live out a sweet, if tormented, romance. Meanwhile, amid the fires and horrors of the Inquisition, angry crowds and abused peasants rejoice in spectacles of cruelty, from bullfighting to auto-da-fe; disgraced priests openly flout God’s laws; and chaos reigns over a society on the brink of disaster. Weaving together multiple storylines to present both breathtaking fiction and incisive commentary, renowned Portuguese writer and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, José Saramago spins an epic and captivating yarn, equal parts historical fiction, political satire, religious criticism, and whimsical romance. Hailed by USA Today as “an unexpected gem,” Baltasar and Blimunda is a captivating literary tour de force, full of magic and adventure, exquisite historical detail, and the power of both human folly and human will.

Message

Message
Author: Fernando Pessoa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2007-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781905700271

Provides a translation that appeared in 1992 from Menard Press/King's College London. This edition features Helder Macedo's introduction and also contains a foreword by Anthony Rudolf, the translator's literary executor, and publisher of Menard Press.

Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems

Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0486114147

Treasury of 37 well-known and representative poems by great Romantic poet includes "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark," "Adonais," "Ozymandias," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," many more. Lists of titles and first lines.