This paper is an overview of the medieval “matter of Troy” as a source and context for the Renaissance reception of the Homeric epics. The main sources and works are taken into account, as well as their impact and the image of the Homeric poems through the medieval and early modern period.

Examinamos la poética bilingüe de Samuel Beckett y su actividad de autotraducción del inglés al francés y del francés al inglés, en su relación con el desarrollo de su estética minimalista en la narración. __________________________________________________

This is an overview of Samuel Beckett’s bilingual poetics and his activity as a self-tr…[Read more]

An overview of some central ideas and movements in nineteenth-century literary theory, criticism and aesthetics, after the heyday of Romanticism. This lecture centers on the development of psychologistic approaches, either in the direction of idealist aesthetics, or of psychoanalysis and anthropology.

An overview of some central ideas and movements in nineteenth-century criticism and aesthetics, after the heyday of Romanticism. This lecture centers on the development of the theory of realistic prose fiction, with Bulwer-Lytton, Henry James and William Dean Howells among others, and the fin-de-siècle Naturalist aesthetic exemplified in the…[Read more]

29 pequenas narrativas sobre o cotidiano humano.

Prefácio
Há algo de inalienável e inescapável na vida de todos nós: o cotidiano. Simples, cômico, breve, solitário, trágico, real, onírico, indiferente, não importa. Nas pequenas ou grandes coisas que fazemos, ele sempre está lá, aguardando pacientemente que o percebamos. As estórias de…[Read more]