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Zir Alessandro <1976-> |
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Luso-Brazilian encounters of the sixteenth century : a styles of thinking approach / / Alessandro Zir |
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Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (143 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Portuguese prose literature - Classical period, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Ontology in literature |
Colonies in literature |
Neoplatonism - History - 16th century |
Ontology - History - 16th century |
Brazil Discovery and exploration Early works to 1800 History and criticism |
Brazil In literature |
Brazil Discovery and exploration Historiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Styles of Thinking; 2 Neo-Platonism in the Early-Modern Period; 3 The Sixteenth-Century Corpus of the Portuguese Colonizers of Brazil: Ontological Issues; 4 The Sixteenth-Century Corpus of the Portuguese Colonizers of Brazil: Three Methodological Strategies; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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