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Silva Reinaldo 
edizioni Univ Pr of New England collana Univ Pr of New England (Paperback) , 2008

The characters may be essential, but few have a distinct identity beyond being merely identified as Portuguese. Even canonical writers such as Hawthorne, London, Melville, Twain and Wharton may tend to use them as archetypes, or as plot devices, not fully understanding the reality behind this truly silent minority....

Lourenco Eduardo  Veloso Carlos (EDT) 
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Seen from the dawn of the twenty-first century, the essays of Eduardo Lourenco (b. 1923) are a philosophical arch that spans the twentieth century, analyzing it and revealing its imaginary borders, dreams, contradictions, ghosts and angels. The symbol the Portuguese essayist derives from the previous century, that...

Conforti Joseph A. 
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Warrin Donald 
edizioni Univ Pr of New England collana Univ Pr of New England (Paperback)

In the first hàlf of the nineteenth century whàling wàs one of the young àmericàn nàtion's most importànt industries, providing lubricànts ànd illuminàtion às well às bàleen, the plàstic of its dày. So Ends This Dày: The Portuguese in àmericàn Whàling, 1765-1927 tràces the history of the àmericàn whàling industry from...

Gil Fernando  Macedo Helder  Rebelo Luis de Sousa (CON) 
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Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. Portuguese Studies. Translated from the Portuguese by Anna Klobucka, Kenneth Krabbenhoft, K. David Jackson, and Richard Zenith. The idea for THE TRAVELING EYE came as a new departure in an old dialogue between the two authors, one a literary scholar, the other a philosopher. Our focus...