Álvaro do Carvalhal: what can be transmitted to us by a “minor author”?

The aim of this paper is to analyze the short story “Os canibais” by Álvaro do Carvalhal to revisit the Portuguese literary historiography as a way to integrate that which was banned or neglected by the institutional historiographers. Thus, it is relevant to study the process of deconstruction of th...

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Autor principal: Batalha, Maria Cristina; UERJ – Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro. Centro de Educação e Humanidades – Departamento de Letras Neo-Latinas. Rio de Janeiro – RJ – Brasil. 20550-900
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Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: ITINERÁRIOS – Revue de Littérature 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/itinerarios/article/view/4866
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-048&d=article4866oai
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is to analyze the short story “Os canibais” by Álvaro do Carvalhal to revisit the Portuguese literary historiography as a way to integrate that which was banned or neglected by the institutional historiographers. Thus, it is relevant to study the process of deconstruction of the fantastic and frenetic canon from the point of view of this ‘minor author’, to examine his close relationship with ‘major writers’ and with the other aesthetics which were considered canonic at his time, namely, the ultra-romanticism, romanticism and realism, in the second half of the 19th century in Portugal.