| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 121 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Styles of thinking -- Neo-Platonism in the early-modern period -- The sixteenth-century corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil: ontological issues -- The sixteenth-century corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil: three methodological strategies. |
| Summary |
As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems of plants and animals. For the most part, these elements are dismissed as mere eccentricities by modern scholars studying these texts. Instead, this book takes these elements seriously. They are focused on and tackled with a theoretical tool-styles of thinking-not yet used in Luso-Brazilian studies, and co. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English and Portuguese. |
| Subject |
Portuguese prose literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Brazil -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism.
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Brazil. |
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Discoveries in geography. |
| Chronological Term |
Early works to 1800 |
| Subject |
Brazil -- In literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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Colonies in literature. |
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Ontology in literature.
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Ontology in literature. |
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Brazil -- Discovery and exploration -- Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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Ontology -- History -- 16th century.
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Ontology. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Neoplatonism -- History -- 16th century.
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Neoplatonism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zir, Alessandro, 1976- Luso-Brazilian encounters of the sixteenth century 9781611470208 (DLC) 2011017312 (OCoLC)698327979 |
| ISBN |
9781611470215 (electronic book) |
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1611470218 (electronic book) |
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9781611470208 |
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161147020X |
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