A Heaven of Their Own: Heresy and Heterodoxy in Portuguese Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

ISBN-13: 9783034319621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 344 str.

Maria Manuel Lisboa

Opis

Over the centuries, Portugal has been shaped by waves of occupation and religious transformation. This book explores texts dating from the eighteenth century to the present in which the encounter between Paganism, Judaism and Islam, on the one hand, and the Christian status quo, on the other, illustrates the former's resistance to absolute erasure.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Religious Difference in Portuguese Literature: God's Infinite Variety - Pagans One and All: Teresa de Mello Breyner and Domingos Monteiro - Moors on the Shore (Há Mouros na Costa): Alexandre Herculano and Helia Correia - The Jew in You: Camilo Castelo Branco and Miguel Torga - Standing in My Relative's Shoes: Christianity on a Crucible: Jose Saramago - In the End Was No Word: Old Tragedies for Modern Times.

O autorze

Maria Manuel Lisboa is Professor of Portuguese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She specializes in Portuguese and Brazilian literature from the nineteenth century to the present and has also published on the visual artist Paula Rego and the theme of apocalypse in English literature and film. Her work has won two prizes: the Prémio do Grémio Literário (Portugal) and the Prémio Itamaraty (Brazil).