A Revisionary History of Portuguese Literature

Ed. Miguel Tamen and Elena Buescu
Explores the relationship between literary history and revisionism, focusing on topics such as Medieval history-writing, Baroque culture, Poetics in the Enlightenment, fin-de-siècle Decadence, Symbolism, and Contemporary Criticism.

Table of Contents

Preface

Miguel Tamen and Helena C. Buescu

Introduction: Ghosts Revised: An Essay on Literary History

Miguel Tamen

1. Infractions of the Name-Hiding Rule in Galician-Portuguese Troubadour

   João Dionísio

2. Belief in History

   Teresa Amado

3. The Songs of Melancholy: Aspects of Mannerism in Camões

   Vítor Aguiar e Silva

4. Baroque Literature Revised and Revisited

   Margarida Vieira Mendes

5. Portuguese Poetics in the Eighteenth Century

   Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz

6. Socio-institutional Literary Practices in Portuguese Romanticism

   Helena C. Buescu

7. Decadence and Fin-de-siècle Literature in Portugal

   J. C. Seabra Pereira

8. Before the Barbarians

   M. S. Lourenço

9. Fernando Pessoa’s Odd Epic

   António M. Feijó

10. Notes for a Cartography of Twentieth-Century Portuguese Poetry

    Manuel Gusmão

11. Contemporary Portuguese Fiction—Cases and Problems

    Paulo Morão

12. Four Twentieth-Century Portuguese Critics

    Victor Mendes

Afterword: Literary History: Are We Still Talking?

Helena C. Buescu