Apr 5, 2002 ... thinking of 'national' history by the writer Lídia Jorge and José Saramago.”
Classes typically taught. B.A. courses in Spanish language and ...
Ronald Sousa
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Current Project “I am currently working on a book on the developments in the novel in Portugal since the Revolution of 1974. The primary focus will fall on the novelistic rethinking of ‘national’ history by the writer Lídia Jorge and José Saramago.” Classes typically taught B.A. courses in Spanish language and literature B.A. and graduate courses in Portuguese language and literature Literary critical theory Selected Publications The Humanities in Dispute. (With Joel Weinsheimer). Purdue University Press, 1998. “Saramago, His Readership, and the Modalities of History -- or Dragging Their Telos Behind Him,” forthcoming, in translation into Portuguese, in a volume (Editorial Caminha, Lisbon) on the work of José Saramago. “A Ficção Vistosa: Una Hipótesis acerca de la Localización Simbólica de la ‘Comedia Española’ en el Portugal del Siglo XVIII”, El Teatro Español del Siglo XVIII, ed. Josep Maria Sala Valldura, 2 vols. “Cannibal, Cartographer, Soldier, Spy: The Peirai of Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação,” in The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997: 15-30. Reading the Harper: On a Portuguese Immigrant Poem, California 1901. (With Maria A. Duarte). Providence: Gávea-Brown, 1996. “Vos outros também cantai por vosso uso acostumado…” In Literature Among Discourses: The Spanish Golden Age. Ed. Wlad Godzich and Nicholas Spadaccini. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987: 116-131.
“Pessoa Criticism and the Antagonistic Literary Institutionality of the Estado Novo.” Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures. Special Issue on Fernando Pessoa, 9 (Fall 1996): 211.224. “The Critique of History in Lídia Jorge’s A Costa dos Murmúrios, or Helen of Beira Meets Luís of Troy.” Cincinnati Romance Review, 16 (1997), 135-143. “Literary Criticism and the Invention of Fernando Pessoa.” Romance Languages Annual, 7 (1996), 631-636. “Reevaluation of Luso-American Popular Literature.” New Canadian Review (Quebec), 2, No. 1 (Winter 1989/90), 47-63. “At the Site of Language: Reading Lispector’s G.H.” Chasqui (Provo, Utah), 18, No. 2 (Nov. 1989) 43-48. Last updated: 5 April 2002
