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Author Zir, Alessandro, 1976-

Title Luso-Brazilian encounters of the sixteenth century : a styles of thinking approach / Alessandro Zir
Published Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 121 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Styles of thinking -- Neo-Platonism in the early-modern period -- The sixteenth-century corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil: ontological issues -- The sixteenth-century corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil: three methodological strategies
Summary As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems of plants and animals. For the most part, these elements are dismissed as mere eccentricities by modern scholars studying these texts. Instead, this book takes these elements seriously. They are focused on and tackled with a theoretical tool-styles of thinking-not yet used in Luso-Brazilian studies, and co
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English and Portuguese
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Subject Portuguese prose literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Colonies in literature.
Ontology in literature.
Ontology -- History -- 16th century
Neoplatonism -- History -- 16th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Colonies in literature
Literature
Neoplatonism
Ontology
Ontology in literature
Portuguese prose literature -- Classical period
SUBJECT Brazil -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism
Brazil -- In literature
Brazil -- Discovery and exploration -- Historiography
Subject Brazil
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611470215
1611470218