RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 43

October 2004

 
PART XVI:

Literature, Literary History, Criticism,

Essays, Correspondence

 
See also items 40, 49, 65, 67, 68, 82, 84, 89, 121, 122, 123 & 124.

69. ALÇADA, João Nuno. Por ser cousa nova em Portugal: oito ensaios vicentinos. Preface by Luís de Sousa Rebelo. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. Ensaio Teatro. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 569 pp. ISBN: 972-8827-16-4. $55.00

 
70. BEBIANO, Rui. O poder da imaginação: juventude, rebeldia e resistência nos anos 60. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. Ensaio Geral. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 208 pp. ISBN: 972-8827-17-2. $30.00
 

71. CAMPOS MATOS, A., ed. Sete biografias de Eça de Queiroz. Lisbon: Horizonte, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 108 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 972-24-1270-1. $25.00

Includes texts by Miguel Melo, António Cabral, Viana Moog, João Gaspar Simões, Luís Viana Filho, José Calvet de Magalhães, and Maria Filomena Mónica.

 
72. CARDOSO BERNARDES, José Augusto. Revisões de Gil Vicente. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. Ensaio Teatro. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 208 pp. ISBN: 972-8827-21-0 (the ISBN 972-8827-16-4 is printed on the inside back cover, presumably in error). $26.00
 

73. FERREIRA DOS SANTOS, Laura. Alteridades feridas: alguns leituras feministas do cristianismo e da filosofia. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2002. Ensaio Filosofia. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 212 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8827-05-9. $30.00

 
74. GIL, Isabel Capeloa, Richard Trewinnard and Maria Laura Pires, eds. Landscapes of Memory. / Paisagens da memória. Lisbon: Universidade Católica , 2004. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 506 pp. Text in English only. ISBN: 972-54-0079-8. $45.00

Compilation of some of the papers presented at the 24th Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American Studies, held 10-12 April 2003 at the Catholic University, Lisbon. Participants came from all over Europe (including Spain, the UK and Hungary), the U.S.A., Canada, the Middle East and Asia. Topics range from Hitchcock and Almodovar, Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa seen through Sidney Pollack's eyes, Byron's Don Juan, Jeremy Bentham and Portugal, Ted Hughes on Chaucer à propos Ovid, Pindar, Robert Duncan and Ezra Pound, from Thucydides to George W. Bush, memory and identity in Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, Gore Vidal's The Golden Age, early Poundian vision of the American metropolis, John Berger's fiction, arts groups and gentrification, American China Towns, J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, poetry of the Brontës, P.D. James, Elisabeth Bishop's Geography III, Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, the confliction memory of modernity from Poe to Casais Monteiro, the language of lobotomy and postmodern discourse from Egas Moniz to Jameson, John Fowles and Peter Ackroyd, Pastiche and Palimpsest in Peter Ackroyd's English Music, and more.

 
75. MATOS, Joaquim. Mário Cláudio: ficção e ideário. Porto: Caixotim, 2004. Colecção Caixotim Ensaio, Perfis. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 188 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-8651-43-0. $32.00

 
76. PAIXÃO, Pedro. Quase gosto da vida que tenho. Lisbon: Quetzal, 2004. Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 173 pp. ISBN: 972-564-605-3. $28.00

The author has published at least 15 books, which have appeared in over 60 editions. Born in Lisbon in 1956, he holds a Ph.D. in philosophy. According to a publisher's blurb in another book, he is not a member of any club, political party, church or masonic lodge, and has never voted.

 
77. PITTA, Eduardo. Fractura: a condição homossexual na literatura portuguesa contemporânea. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. Colecção Marfim. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 39, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-8827-01-6. $18.00

 
78. REBELO DE ANDRADE, Manuel Belo. Sem abrigo. n.p [Portugal]: Coolbooks, 2004. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 108 pp. ISBN: 972-799-032-0. $25.00
 

79. REIMÃO, Cassiano, and Manuel Cândido Pimentel, eds. Os longos caminhos do ser: homenagem a Manuel Barbosa da Costa Freitas. Lisbon: Universidade Católica, 2003. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 749, (1) pp., frontisport. ISBN: 972-54-0070-4. $65.00

The title on the front cover reads Estudos dedicados ao Prof. Douto Manuel Barbosa da Costa Freitas. Of the 38 essays included, one is in English, the rest are in Portuguese. Some of the topics include a "recordação" of Velásquez, ontology of ethical-political relations in the philosophy of Aristotle, the poetry of Agostinho da Silva, Saint Augustine (2), espressions of existentialism in Portuguese theater: Raul Brandão, João Pedro de Andrade, Vergílio Ferreira and Agustina Bessa Luís, a polemic between António Sérgio and Teixeira de Pascoaes, the work of Jean Nabert, the internal experience of Delfim Santos, fiction and politics, "amor rústico" and "Amore urbano" in Coração cabeça e estômago by Camilo Castelo Branco, Teófilo Braga and the social dimension of religion, notes on Saint Thomas Aquinas, the "res política" in the tragicomedy of P. Luís da Cruz, S.J., individual, individuality, and individualization in F.W.J. Schelling, the História do futuro of Father António Vieira, speculative thought of Sant'Anna Dionísio, and more.

 
80. RUBIM, Gustavo. Arte de sublinhar, ensaios. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. Ensaio Literatura. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 191 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8827-09-1. $25.00
 

81. SERRA, Pedro, ed. Uma abelha na chuva: uma revisão. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. Revisões. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 206 pp. ISBN: 972-8115-97-0. $25.00

Essays on Carlos de Oliveira's Uma abelha na chuva on the 50th aniverary of its initial publication. Included are contributions by Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre, Maria Manuel Lisboa, Abel Barros Baptista, Pedro Schachtt Pereira, Pedro Serra, Sérgia Paulo Guimarães de Sousa and Américo António Lindeza Diogo.