The Poetic Universe of Cecília Meireles

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword Vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. Biography 1
5. Bibliography 3
6. Part One: General and Luso-Brasilian Linguistics
7. Generative Phonology, Universals, and the Explanation of French and Portuguese Nasalization 19
8. Forms of Address of Brazilian Portuguese 45
9. A Historical Parallel between Passives and Adjectives 67
10. Sobre o discutido problema da origem do gal.-port inzar / incar ‘infectar,’ etc. 79
11. Aspectos da língua portuguese nos Estados Unidos da América do Norte 85
12. Part Two: Medieval Studies
13. Alfonso X of Castile and Diniz of Portugal 95
14. An Enigmatic Fresco at Fontainbleau and French Attitudes toward Chivalry 109
15. Regretter 121
16. Exercise in Power 137
17. Part Three: Luso-Brazilian Literature
18. The Schizophrenic Narrator and the Myth of Renewal in Memórias de Lázaro 155
19. Pombal contra Malagrida 167
20. Machado de Assis and Saint-Clair das Ilhas 185
21. Domingos Caldas Barbosa 195
22. Tema oriental na literatura brasileira (do romantismo ao pré-modernismo) 205
23. Lima Barreto’s Theory of Literature 223
24. Goa desenmascarada 235
25. The Poetic Universe of Cecília Meireles 243
26. The Elusive Lettres portugaises 259
27. Part Four: Travel Literature
28. Extraordinary French Voyages 269
29. The Duke of Berry’s Multiple Copies of the Fleur des histoires d’Orient 281