George Monteiro 
The Presence of Camões [PDF ebook] 
Influences on the Literature of England, America, and Southern Africa

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Of the great epic poets in the Western tradition, Luis Vaz de Camões (c. 1524- 1580) remains perhaps the least known outside his native Portugal, and his influence on literature in English has not been fully recognized. In this major work of comparative scholarship, George Monteiro thus breaks new ground, focusing on English-language writers whose vision and expression have been sharpened by their varied responses to Camões.

Introduced to English readers in 1655, Camões’s work from the beginning appealed strongly to writers. The young Elizabeth Barrett’s Camonean poems, for example, inspired Edgar Allan Poe to appropriate elements from Camões. Herman Melville’s reading of Camões bore fruit in his career-long borrowings from the Portuguese poet. Longfellow, T.W. Higginson, and Emily Dickinson read and championed Camões. And
Camões as epicist and love poet is an éminence grise in several of Elizabeth Bishop’s strongest Brazilian poems. Southern African writers have interpreted and reinterpreted Adamastor, Camões’s Spirit of the Cape, as both a symbol of a dangerous and mysterious Africa and an emblem of European imperialism.

Recognizing the presence of Camões leads Monteiro to provocative rereadings of such texts as Dickinson’s ‘Master’ letters, Poe’s ‘Raven, ‘ Melville’s late poetry, and Bishop’s Questions of Travel.

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George Monteiro is professor of English and of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University and the author of numerous works dealing with Portuguese and American literature.

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Bahasa Inggeris ● Format PDF ● Halaman-halaman 200 ● ISBN 9780813156866 ● Saiz fail 11.4 MB ● Penerbit The University Press of Kentucky ● Bandar raya Lexington ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2014 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 5508512 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
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