A Revisionary History of Portuguese Literature

This collection of original essays traces the history of Portuguese literature from the medieval period to the present, providing provocative new interpretations of this previously neglected literary history. The volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Portuguese literature to students new to the field, and provides new insight into the ongoing controversies on the subject. The Introduction and Afterword explore the relationship between literary history and revisionism.

Miguel Tamen, Helena C. Buescu

Chapter 1 Infractions of the Name-Hiding Rule in Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poetry, João Dionísio; Chapter 2 Belief in History, Teresa Amado; Chapter 3 The Songs of Melancholy, Vítor Aguiar e Silva; Chapter 4 Baroque Literature Revised and Revisited, Margarida Vieira Mendes; Chapter 5 Portuguese Poetics in the Eighteenth Century, Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz; Chapter 6 Socio-Institutional Literary Practices in Portuguese Romanticism, Helena C. Buescu; Chapter 7 Decadence and Fin-De-Siècle Literature in Portugal, J. C. Seabra Pereira; Chapter 8 Before the Barbarians, M. S. Lourenço; Chapter 9 Fernando Pessoa's Odd Epic, António M. Feijó; Chapter 10 Notes for a Cartography of Twentieth-Century Portuguese Poetry, Manuel Gusmão; Chapter 11 Contemporary Portuguese Fiction-Cases and Problems, Paula Morão; Chapter 12 Four Twentieth-Century Portuguese Critics, Victor Mendes; Chapter 13 Literary History, Helena C. Buescu;