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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... Novel . It was , though , in the novel that Brazilian romantics would produce works that would most directly address the problem of Brazilian identity . The salient figure in the Romantic novel in Brazil was José de Alencar ( 1829-1877 ) ...
... novel . Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias , first published in 1854-1855 ( Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant , 1959 ) , lacks the sentimental and idealized character of the typical Romantic novel , but it is in fact not much more than a novel ...
... novel . His novels are characterized by an economy of expression rare in Brazilian letters and a linguistic precision unusual in any literature . He was also technically an incredibly inventive and original writer . None of his books ...
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Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
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