This book explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from medieval times to the present. Contributors examine how Portuguese writers engage with the environment not only to prompt social, political, or philosophical reflections on human society, but also to learn from non-humans.
This book explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from medieval times to the present. Contributors examine how Portuguese writers engage with the environment not only to prompt social, political, or philosophical reflections on human society, but also to learn from non-humans.
Victor K. Mendes is associate professor of Portuguese, director of the PhD program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian studies and theory, and director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Patrícia Vieira is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, comparative literature, and film and media studies at Georgetown University and associate research professor at the Center for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra.
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Introduction Chapter 1. A Portuguese Approach to the Environmental Crisis Chapter 2. Environment, Nature and Landscape: Conceptual Affinities and Distinctions in the Portuguese Context Chapter 3. Inter-, Multi- and Trans-Disciplinarity: New Horizons for Portuguese Environmental History Chapter 4. Elemental Portugal Chapter 5. "Songs of Stance" Chapter 6. Portuguese Environmental Perceptions of Brazil in the Sixteenth Century Chapter 7. Nature's Literary Lessons: Júlio Dinis on Literature and the Environment Chapter 8. "On Borrowed 'Women's Time': Ecological Female Bodies and the Re-Engendering of Nature in Eça de Queirós's A Cidade e as Serras" Chapter 9. Hunters of Empire: João Teixeira de Vasconcelos's Colonial Memoirs of African Hunting Chapter 10. Environmentalizing Fernando Pessoa's Modernism Chapter 11. The Posthuman Poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Chapter 12. The Environment and José Saramago's Literary Program in Journey to Portugal. In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
Introduction Chapter 1. A Portuguese Approach to the Environmental Crisis Chapter 2. Environment, Nature and Landscape: Conceptual Affinities and Distinctions in the Portuguese Context Chapter 3. Inter-, Multi- and Trans-Disciplinarity: New Horizons for Portuguese Environmental History Chapter 4. Elemental Portugal Chapter 5. "Songs of Stance" Chapter 6. Portuguese Environmental Perceptions of Brazil in the Sixteenth Century Chapter 7. Nature's Literary Lessons: Júlio Dinis on Literature and the Environment Chapter 8. "On Borrowed 'Women's Time': Ecological Female Bodies and the Re-Engendering of Nature in Eça de Queirós's A Cidade e as Serras" Chapter 9. Hunters of Empire: João Teixeira de Vasconcelos's Colonial Memoirs of African Hunting Chapter 10. Environmentalizing Fernando Pessoa's Modernism Chapter 11. The Posthuman Poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Chapter 12. The Environment and José Saramago's Literary Program in Journey to Portugal. In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
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