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Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature are……続きを見る

As transformações no discurso do personagem Paulo Honório durante o desenrolar do romance “São Bernardo”, de Graciliano Ramos, é o centro deste estudo, que tenta evidenciar que elas ocorrem concomit……続きを見る

Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Decameron' is a timeless masterpiece that captures the essence of 14th-century Italian literature. From Day 6 to Day 10, this collection of novellas explores themes of love……続きを見る

This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetimeinherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disrup……続きを見る

A noncommissioned officer of the Nicaraguan National Guard travels to New York to meet the famous bodybuilder, Charles Atlas. When he approaches his hero, he finds a body pierced with syringes and t……続きを見る

This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the repres……続きを見る

This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality,……続きを見る

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartogr……続きを見る

Os onze ensaios aqui reunidos agrupam-se em duas partes: “Estudos comparativos” e “Aspectos da narrativa rosiana”. A primeira tem como eixos a relação entre narrativas de Guimarães Rosa e escritos l……続きを見る

Comprising contributions from writers, scholars, friends, and former students around the world, think of this anthology as being a steaming pot of Gumbo Ya-Ya: simultaneously a dish so delicious it ……続きを見る

Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction is the first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose, highlighting how our interac……続きを見る

Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil’s Most Popular Poem, 1846–2018 is the first comprehensive study of the influence of Antônio Gonçalves Dias’s “Canção do exílio.” Written in Coimbra, Port……続きを見る

In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil ass……続きを見る

In Simon Gikandi’s view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernityーa relationship in which the Ca……続きを見る

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Ho……続きを見る

Estudo da sociedade brasileira do fim do século XIX e começo do século XX, delineado a partir das evidências de como os escritores interagiam e da maneira como retratavam os mecanismos das relações ……続きを見る

(1º lugar na categoria Crítica Literária do 59º prêmio Jabuti) A obra, dividida em três partes, observa os mecanismos de diálogo de Machado com o leitor e o crítico, analisa a ironia no tecido retór……続きを見る

Este livro, sobre o escritor pernambucano Hermilo Borba Filho, associa a cultura de resistência à cultura popular, uma sintonia com uma linguagem que busca enaltecer a visão de mundo popular, numa i……続きを見る

O presente livro tem por objeto de estudo o romance O Ateneu, de Raul Pompéia, publicado em 1888 em folhetim pela Gazeta de Notícias e, meses mais tarde, em volume, pela tipografia do mesmo jornal. ……続きを見る

Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa. El Gran Gatsby por Francis Scott Fitzgerald El Mago de O……続きを見る

An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation. In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfold……続きを見る

La obra estudia las relaciones intertextuales creadas por el opus lírico de Julio Cortázar. Dichas relaciones se revelan como múltiples y multifacéticas y construyen un campo intertextual en torno a……続きを見る

Since the 1970s, sociocultural analysis in Latin American studies has been marked by a turn away from problems of political economy. Accumulation and Subjectivity challenges this turn while reconcep……続きを見る

What does it mean to theorize Christianity in light of the decolonial turn? This volumeinvites distinguished Latinx and Latin American scholars to a conversation that engages the rich theoretical co……続きを見る

Long before the concept of “globalization,” the Portuguese constructed a vast empire that extended into Africa, India, Brazil, and mid-Atlantic territories, as well as parts of China, Southeast Asia……続きを見る

Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as……続きを見る

"Óscar Osorio despliega en este libro sobre la figura del sicario en la novela colombiana lo mejor de su capacidad crítica. Pone a prueba su honestidad intelectual y su rigor investigativo al confro……続きを見る

A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar “I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the f……続きを見る

As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written i……続きを見る

An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President Domingo F. Sarmiento’s invitation to set up normal schools in Ar……続きを見る