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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection of essays traces the history of Portugese literature from the medieval period to the present. The volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Portugese literature to students new to the field and provides insight into the ongoing controversies on the subject.

In contemporary societies "privatization" has long ceased to be just an economic concept; rather, it must increasingly be made to refer to the ongoing shrinking of the public space under the impact of the representation of individual lives and images, which cuts across all discourses, genres and media to become one of the primary means of production of culture. This volume is intended to cover such an historical, social and intellectual ground, where self-representation comes to the fore. Targeting mostly an academic readership but certainly also of interest to the general educated public, it...