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.

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