Contos Populares Portugueses de Massachusetts (Guilherme Alexandre Da Silveira) / Portuguese Folktales from Massachusetts

ISBN-13: 9781433193651 / Angielski

Dulce Maria Scott; Irene Maria F. Blayer; Manuel Da Costa Fontes

Opis

This is the third of three collections dedicated to the Portuguese folktale in North America (Canada, California, and Massachusetts). The present volume, which contributes to preserving an ancient, disappearing tradition, consists of 82 folktales of Indo-European character recorded in Taunton, Massachusetts.

O autorze

Manuel da Costa Fontes, Professor Emérito, é especialista nas Literaturas Ibéricas da Idade Média e do Renascimento, com ênfase no Romanceiro, relações entre o folclore e a literatura, Cripto-Judaísmo e técnicas utilizadas por escritores Cristãos-Novos para expressar ideias perigosas apesar da Inquisição.

Manuel da Costa Fontes, Professor Emeritus, is a specialist in Iberian Literatures from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, with emphasis on traditional Portuguese ballads, the relationship between folklore and literature, Crypto-Judaism, and the techniques used by New-Christian writers to express dangerous ideas despite the Inquisition.