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A Lua E O Domador: Símbolos Literários E Divisões Sociais Na Poesia Nacionalista De Cassiano Ricardo E Leopoldo Marechal, Luiza Franco Moreira Jun 1998

A Lua E O Domador: Símbolos Literários E Divisões Sociais Na Poesia Nacionalista De Cassiano Ricardo E Leopoldo Marechal, Luiza Franco Moreira

Comparative Literature Faculty Scholarship

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翻譯的步驟, Di Jin Apr 1998

翻譯的步驟, Di Jin

文學與翻譯研究中心 論文叢刊 Centre for Literature and Translation Occasional Paper Series

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Froissart Across The Genres, Donald Maddox Jan 1998

Froissart Across The Genres, Donald Maddox

Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery

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Review Of Ruth Finnegan's Oral Traditions And The Verbal Arts: A Guide To Research Practices, Chukwuma Azuonye Jan 1998

Review Of Ruth Finnegan's Oral Traditions And The Verbal Arts: A Guide To Research Practices, Chukwuma Azuonye

Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series

Review of Ruth Finnegan's Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices. (ASA Research Methods in Social Anthropology Series, no. 4.) xviii, 284pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.


O Caramuru Y Caramurú: Sus Relaciones En La Formación De Un Protoimaginario Nacional Uruguayo, Maria Cristina Burgueno Jan 1998

O Caramuru Y Caramurú: Sus Relaciones En La Formación De Un Protoimaginario Nacional Uruguayo, Maria Cristina Burgueno

Modern Languages Faculty Research

This article examines the inter-textual relations between the novel Caramurú (1848?) by the Uruguayan writer Alejandro Magariños Cervantes, and the epic poem O Caramuru (1781) by the Portuguese Friar Jose de Santa Rita Durão. The thesis of the article is that these literary works reflect the deep cultural and political connections between Uruguay and Brazil, and how these links were present at the time when –surrounded by uncertainties about the viability of the new state—the elaboration of a Uruguayan national identity started. The pro-Brazilian option –shown by the selection of Caramuru, who was a foundational character of the Brazilian History …


Romantic Agonies: Human Suffering And The Ethical Sublime, Anthony P. Russell, Terryl Givens Jan 1998

Romantic Agonies: Human Suffering And The Ethical Sublime, Anthony P. Russell, Terryl Givens

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

This essay examines two poems depicting human anguish in order to explore a current in Romantic thought that implicitly yields some original and compelling insights regarding the problematic relationship between art and suffering. The focus is primarily on Wordsworth's narrative of Margaret's suffering in The Excursion, then more briefly on Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. In both cases Kant's ideas about the sublime provide us with a useful perspective from which to understand the issues these poems raise.