Francisco Cota Fagundes

Génesis

Irene Maria Blayer

Portugal traditions

Paula Gândara

an international colloquium

Tudo isto que rodeia Jorge de Sena

Humanism in Jorge de Sena's Poetry

A Poet's Way with Music

José N. Ornelas

selecção das comunicações apresentadas no Colóquio Internacional sobre Jorge de Sena, realizado na Universidade de Massachusetts, em Amherst, em Outubro de 1988

Jorge de Sena, o homem que sempre foi

Vitorino Nemésio and the Azores

This interdisciplinary volume centers on the interrelations of storytelling and various manifestations of cultural identity, from written to oral and from autobiographical to regional and national. Indigenous storytelling, as well as storytelling for and by children and the elderly, are the main focus of these essays. Together, these fifteen texts make a significant contribution toward a deeper understanding of various aspects of textual and oral narrative: they broaden the lines of inquiry into multidisciplinary and multicultural interests, particularly those centering on the construction, expression, and contextualization of various types of identity; and they illustrate the deployment of storytelling not only as testimony, contestation, and subversion - but also as peacebuilding. Many countries, languages and cultures are herein represented - from the United States and Canada to Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia, from English to Japanese to Greek to Italian to the languages of indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Philippines.

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity

Jorge de Sena

Poetry. Translated from the Portuguese by Francisco C. Fagundes and James Houlihan. Jorge de Sena (1919-1978), widely regarded as the foremost Portuguese poet and man of letters since the Second World War, authored about a hundred books, including over a dozen volumes of poetry and numerous translations of poets like Dickinson and Cavafy, during his life as a civil engineer in Portugal and, beginning in 1959, as a writer-in-exile in Brazil and the United States, where at the time of his death he headed the Comparative Literature Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. This first English translation of his 1963 masterpiece establishes him as one of the greatest world poets of our day. Borrowing its title from Ovid, it consists of twenty-three poems inspired by twenty acclaimed examples of art and artistry (reproduced here in black and white) from the Archaic Period to the Space Age—from Moorish architecture to paintings by Rembrandt, Goya, and Van Gogh, from Keats's death mask to a sputnik. By turns philosophical and earthy, at once lucid and intense, these fine translations are perfectly pitched to capture Sena's distinctive voice, as he draws on a richly eclectic mix of sources to pay homage to the creative imagination and its man-made meanings in poems that are always formally subtle, deeply intelligent, and passionately human.

Metamorphoses

An Azorean American Odyssey : Memoir

Hard Knocks

Miguel Torga e seu compromisso : selecção das comunicações apresentadas no Colóquio Internacional sobre Miguel Torga, realizado na Universidade de Massachusetts, em Amherst, em outubro de 1992

Sou um homem de granito

Francisco Cota Fagundes

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