This article analyzes the different Portuguese translations of Shakespeare used in Brazil over the last two centuries, examining the effects of the variation of translations …
As Sérgio Buarque de Holanda has shown, books about America written by explorers and their chroniclers present the new world as a paradise. Authors such …
This essay examines the trajectory of director Antunes Filho's work with Grupo Macunaíma, Brazil's—arguably Latin America's—most important theatrical troupe. The essay examines the plays: the …
This essay presents an assessment of the main currents in Brazilian theater over the last three decades, with special attention to the major playwrights and …
Better known as a novelist and short-story writer, Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-1996) was interested in theater throughout his life. This essay considers his dramatic production …
Investigating historical ideas and positions which led to contemporary literary criticism, the article discusses the system of production and circulation of Brazilian criticism. It considers …
Based on letters written to his family by Ferdinand Denis, this article reveals the complex image playing between America and Europe that concurred to the …
This essay analyses the ideological discourse that pervades the patriarchal basis of the Brazilian family in a class-oriented perspective, along the period that goes from …
Fernando Pessoa e Guilherme de Faria partilharam há cem anos, em Lisboa, os lugares de tantos encontros e desencontros no meio literário. É certo que …
Fernando Pessoa foi, primeiro como crítico e, depois, como poeta com obra publicada, repetidamente solicitado para responder a “inquéritos literários”, geralmente promovidos por jornais e …
Na década de 1910, Fernando Pessoa desenvolve dois grandes projetos literários: o teatro estático e o heteronimismo. A fase crucial da teorização e prática literárias …
Neste contributo investigam-se possíveis referências do projecto pessoano póstumo intitulado “Trilogia dos Gigantes” a partir da Biblioteca Particular de Fernando Pessoa – apresentam-se títulos que …
This essay examines the pronouncements of Brazilian critics and theoreticians on the issues of periodization and the formation of the canon, as far as Brazilian …
This work argues that Olavo Bilac intended to communicate with an "elite" among the carioca reading public, an elite that was culturally and economically able …
We discuss here the literary system proposed by Antonio Candido. The idea is to broaden the understanding of the theoretical scheme in application to oral …
Na sua edição de Sodoma Divinizada, de Raul Leal, Aníbal Fernandes refere-se à passagem do escritor por Espanha, nomeadamente Madrid, Toledo e Sevilha, em 1916 …
Nélson Rodrigues' psychological method to portray social reality prevents his play ‘Anjo Negro’ (1946) from achieving its ostensible goal: the demystification of the Brazilian racial …
In addition to being a great Brazilian author, Clarice Lispector is also a distinguished Latin American writer. Her novelistic production corresponds to the rise of …
This paper presents some reviews on Helen Caldwell's work, especially those referred 'to her first book, "The Brazilian Othello of Machado de Assis: A study …