Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... Romantic innovation , but France was the immediate source of most of the important ideas of romanticism in Brazil , since it was usually in French translation that Brazilians had access to writers like Goethe , Byron , and Scott ...
... Romantic disease of tuberculosis at the age of 21 ) . He was also one of several notable writers of the period to obsess , in verse , about the unattainable Ro- mantic love object , a theme which eventually became a cliché for Romantic ...
... Romantic novel , but it is in fact not much more than a novel of urban customs with an overlay of mild satire , which makes it look somewhat picaresque . Drama . Brazilian theater also emerged during the Romantic period . Al- though ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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