This Little Lusitanian House: Essays on Portuguese Culture
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Author: Eduardo Lourenco
Edited and translated by Ronald W. Sousa, 2003. ISBN 0-943722-30-6
Since the Portuguese revolution of 1974, Eduardo Lourenço has established himself as one of the most visible and most respected of his country's intellectuals. In this collection of essays, Lourenco explores Portuguese history and culture as symbolic constructs. A country richly colored by a past traditionally rendered in epic terms now faces uneasy redefinition in a powerful, largely American, post-modern cultural moment.
Ronald W. Sousa is Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of The Rediscoverers, co-author of Reading the Harper and The Humanities in Dispute. He is also the translator of several works of literature and literary theory into English.
Since the Portuguese revolution of 1974, Eduardo Lourenço has established himself as one of the most visible and most respected of his country's intellectuals. In this collection of essays, Lourenco explores Portuguese history and culture as symbolic constructs. A country richly colored by a past traditionally rendered in epic terms now faces uneasy redefinition in a powerful, largely American, post-modern cultural moment.
Ronald W. Sousa is Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of The Rediscoverers, co-author of Reading the Harper and The Humanities in Dispute. He is also the translator of several works of literature and literary theory into English.
