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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... literary . Until recently , many of Brazil's best known literary works originally appeared in part or in entirety in a newspaper . Brazil inherited a long and enduring literary legacy from Portugal , which is often considered a country ...
... Literary historians like to divide the Romantic period into a given number of generations , but since there is no unanimity on how many there were or on what to call them , it is probably more useful to discuss what the romantics had in ...
... literary modernism " in English . In Brazil , Symbolism can be regarded as either an island in a sea of Parnassianism or an appendix to it . Symbolism shares with Romanticism a focus on the ego and on inspiration and the view of the ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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