A Companion to Portuguese Literature

An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature.

List of contents

Introduction - Stephen Parkinson
Introduction - Thomas F Earle and Cláudia Pazos Alonso
Eight Centuries of Portuguese Literature: An Overview - Helder Macedo
The Medieval Galician-Portuguese Lyric - Rip Cohen and Stephen Parkinson
Fernao Lopes and Portuguese Prose Writing of the Middle Ages - Stephen Parkinson
Portuguese Theatre in the Sixteenth Century: Gil Vicente and António Ferreira - Juliet Perkins and Thomas F Earle
The Lusiads and the Literature of Portuguese Overseas Expansion - Clive Willis
Lyric Poetry in the Sixteenth Century - Thomas F Earle
The Seventeenth Century - Luís Gomes
The Eighteenth Century - Vanda Anastacio
Almeida Garrett: Founder of Modern Portuguese Literature - Helena Buescu
The Transition from Romanticism to Realism - David Frier
Eça de Queirós: A European Writer - Teresa Pinto Coelho
Fernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation - Mariana Gray de Castro
Narrative and Drama during the Dictatorship - Phillip Rothwell
Women Writers up to 1974 - Hilary Owen and Cláudia Pazos Alonso
Writing after the Dictatorship - Mark Sabine and Claire Williams
Portuguese Literature in English Translation - Pat Odber

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Parkinson
• Assisted by: T F Earle (Editor), T. F. Earle (Editor), Stephen Parkinson (Editor), Cláudia Pazos Alonso (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9781855661943
• ISBN: 978-1-85566-194-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Monografías a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias