There’s No Word for Saudade contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those related to Portuguese America. Significant figures covered include John Dos Passos, Charles Reis Felix, Julian Silva, John Philip Sousa, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, James Merrill, and the Azorean John Francis, businessman, patron, and friend to the fabled Provincetown Players.
Concluding essays scrutinize and judge the phenomenon of the Portuguese movie in the 1930s and 1940s, and trace the history of the tricky but persistently present Portuguese concept of saudade.
| ISBN: | 9781433139079 |
| Publication date: | 23rd August 2017 |
| Author: | George Monteiro |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 218 pages |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas |
| Genres: |
Sociolinguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
There’s No Word for Saudade contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those related to Portuguese America. Significant figures covered include John Dos Passos, Charles Reis Felix, Julian Silva, John Philip Sousa, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, James Merrill, and the Azorean John Francis, businessman, patron, and friend to the fabled Provincetown Players.
There's No Word for «Saudade» features in the following genres: Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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There's No Word for «Saudade» was written by George Monteiro and published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc
There's No Word for «Saudade» has 218 pages
Yes it is part of Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas series