عنوان

Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st centuries /

(Number (ISBN

9004383395

(Number (ISBN

9789004383395

Erroneous ISBN

9004372903

Erroneous ISBN

9789004372900

Title Proper

Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st centuries /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Andrés Pociña, Aurora López, Carlos Morais, Maria de Fátima Silva, Patrick J. Finglass.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Boston :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Date

1811

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource.

Series Title

Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity ;

Volume Designation

volume 14

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Euripides' Medea in context / Patrick J. Finglass -- Medea : the bewitched witch in Apollonius of Rhodes / Maria do Ceu Fialho -- Versions of Medea in classical Latin / Andres Pocina and Aurora Lopez -- Os encantos de Medeia by Antonio Jose da Silva : comedy version of a tragic theme (18th century) / Maria de Fatima Silva -- In search of lost identity : Jean Anouilh's Medea / Maria de Fatima Silva -- The reception of Medea in the 20th and 21st centuries / Rosanna Lauriola -- Medea as an aesthetic and ethical space in Fiama's work / Alia Rodrigues -- A Portuguese Medea : Eduarda Dionisio, Antes Que a noite venha (Before the night comes) / Maria de Fatima Silva -- Helia Correia's A de Colquida (The woman from Colchis) / Maria Antonio Horster and Maria de Fatima Silva -- Language, barbarism, and civilization : Helia Correia's Desmesura (Excess) / Maria de Fatima Silva -- Measure in Helia Correia's Desmesura : an exercise in recreating classical rhythm / Carlos Morais -- Medea in the society of entertainment : a reading of Mario Claudio's Medeia / Maria Antonio Horster and Maria de Fatima Silva -- Revisiting Medea : Carlos Jorge Pessoa's Escrita da agua : no rasto de Medeia (Water writing : in Medea's wake) / Susana Hora Marques -- The art of translating a classic : author's and translator's marks / Maria de Fatima Silva.

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Text of Note

"The theme of Medea in Portuguese literature has mainly given rise to the writing of new plays on the subject. The central episode in the Portuguese rewritings in the last two centuries is the one that takes place in Corinth, i.e., the break between Medea and Jason, on the one hand, and Medea's killing of their children in retaliation, on the other. Besides the complex play of feelings that provides this episode with very real human emotions, gender was a key issue in determining the interest that this story elicited in a society in search of social renovation, after profound political transformations - during the transition between dictatorship and democracy which happened in 1974 - that generated instability and established a requirement to find alternative rules of social intercourse in the path towards a new Portugal"--

Title

Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st centuries

International Standard Book Number

9789004372900

Medea,In literature.

Medea

Portuguese literature-- History and criticism-- 20th century.

Portuguese literature-- History and criticism-- 21st century.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese

Literature.

Portuguese literature.

LIT-- 004280

Number

Edition

Class number

Finglass, Patrick,1979-

López López, Aurora

Morais, Carlos

Pociña Pérez, Andrés

Silva, Maria de Fátima Sousa e

Date of Transaction

20200823211725.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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