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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... Literature is also the art form most closely coinciding chronologically with developments in Europe . When Dom João VI arrived in Brazil in 1808 , the Neoclassical period in literature was almost at an end , but the corresponding ...
... literature . Strangely , this rather barbaric situation altered the character of Brazilian literature but did not preclude its existence . There are some curious uncertainties involved in the discussion of litera- ture in colonial ...
... literature since European contact , beginning with Anchieta's autos . In the nineteenth century the comedy of manners of Martins Pena and the revista ( review ) of Artur Azevedo were the most popular works by national writers , but none ...
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Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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