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Brazil's Folk-Popular Poetry - a Literatura de Cordel

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426924690
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Brazil's Folk-Popular Poetry - a Literatura de Cordel written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil's folk-popular poetry - "a literatura de cordel," - is perhaps the most important and vibrant variant of poetry of the masses in western culture. But not many people in the English-speaking world know much about it. Written by one of the most educated scholars on the subject, Brazil's Folk-Popular Poetry - A Literatura De Cordel goes back to the craft's origins in Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries and tells the story of how it developed and found a place in the hearts and minds of the people of Brazil. Get ready to discover: How Spain and France influenced the poetry. Beautiful narrative poetry from forgotten poets who deserve to be rediscovered. How the "cordel" spread from northeastern Brazil to the Amazon region, to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in the South, and later to Brasilia. Why these poems are still relevant today. And much more! Become a fan of a poetry that documents religious beliefs, views on national politics, and thoughts on morality.

A Portrait of Brazil in the Twentieth Century

Author : MARK J. CURRAN
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490708340
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of Brazil in the Twentieth Century written by MARK J. CURRAN and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Portrait of Brazil in the Twentieth Century: The Universe of the Literatura de Cordel is Currans most recent project. The book, in effect, is the English version of a major work published in Brazil in Portuguese in 2011, Retrato do Brasil em Cordel. Curran returns to Portrait for several reasons: primary is his strong feeling that the amazingly broad view of Brazil in the twentieth century seen in the thousands of booklets in verse from the Cordel represents a major aspect of Brazilian culture in that century. Second, because there are many important bodies of folk-popular verse in the Western tradition, all distant relatives of the Greek and Roman epic traditions, and because Brazils folk-popular poetry is one among them. And because a very large reading public interested in such things does not know Portuguese, this volume in English strives to make the tradition available to such readers. Finally, the book in two volumes represents the cumulative efforts of research and writing of Professor Curran in a career of forty-three years of scholarly research and teaching. It reveals a unique portrait of Brazil and its people, informative, instructive, and mainly, entertaining.

Stories on a String

Author : Candace Slater
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520318021
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Stories on a String written by Candace Slater and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

The Master of the "Literatura De Cordel" Leandro Gomes De Barros

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1698711301
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Master of the "Literatura De Cordel" Leandro Gomes De Barros written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Master of the 'Literatura de Cordel' - Leandro Gomes de Barros. A Bilingual Anthology of Selected Works" is Professor Curran's return to research and writing from his first days in Brazil in 1966-1967 on a Fulbright Hays Fellowship for Ph.D. dissertation work. This book treats "Cordel's" best known and arguably best poet, a translation to English of his selected works, and a commentary on his pioneering days of the "Literatura de Cordel." Among the poet's topics were the changing times, foreigners in Brazil, government-politics-and war, mothers-in-law, sugar cane rum, religion and satire, banditry, the oral poetic duel, and the long narrative poems from the European popular tradition. Curran in addition gives a synopsis of the "Literatura de Cordel" as it was in its heyday in his initial research in the 1960s. The translation was a challenge but also a great pleasure.

Adventures of a "Gringo" Researcher in Brazil in the 1960's

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466965762
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Adventures of a "Gringo" Researcher in Brazil in the 1960's written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures of a "Gringo" Researcher in Brazil in the 1960s or In Search of Cordel is an entertaining and informative account of Professor Curran's first foray in Brazil. In this book he tells two stories: the research to collect cordel and, perhaps more importantly, the travel and the adventures of the year in Brazil. The two are inseparable and complement each other. Chapters include Recife and the Northeast, Travels to the interior of the Northeast, research in Brazil's colonial capital of Salvador da Bahia, research and tourism in Rio de Janeiro, trips to the interior of Rio, including Ouro Preto, Congonhas do Campo, and a memorable trip on a wood-burning stern wheeler on the Sao Francisco River in Minas Gerais and Bahia, and finally, research in the Amazon Basin, including both Belem do Para and Manaus. The account is not in academic language but in a colloquial, conversational style. Curran writes as one sitting down with the reader and telling tales of his travels, and perhaps with the author and reader enjoying a caipirinha, or a Brazilian draft beer choppe as they talk.

FIFTY YEARS OF RESEARCH ON Brazil

Author : MARK J. CURRAN
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490708375
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book FIFTY YEARS OF RESEARCH ON Brazil written by MARK J. CURRAN and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Portrait of Brazil in the Twentieth Century: The Universe of the "Literatura de Cordel" is Curran's most recent project. The book, in effect, is the English version of a major work published in Brazil in Portuguese in 2011, Retrato do Brasil em Cordel. Curran returns to Portrait for several reasons: primary is his strong feeling that the amazingly broad view of Brazil in the twentieth century seen in the thousands of booklets in verse from the Cordel represents a major aspect of Brazilian culture in that century. Second, because there are many important bodies of folk-popular verse in the Western tradition, all distant relatives of the Greek and Roman epic traditions, and because Brazil's folk-popular poetry is one among them. And because a very large reading public interested in such things does not know Portuguese, this volume in English strives to make the tradition available to such readers. Finally, the book in two volumes represents the cumulative efforts of research and writing of Professor Curran in a career of forty-three years of scholarly research and teaching. It reveals a unique portrait of Brazil and its people, informative, instructive, and mainly, entertaining.

Letters from Brazil

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490785566
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Brazil written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from Brazil: A Cultural-Historical Narrative Made Fiction recounts the adventures of young researcher Mike Gaherty in Brazil in the turbulent 1960s. It tells the story of his research on Brazilian folklore and folk-popular literature (with inevitable amorous moments along the way) while dodging encounters and threats from agents of the DOPS, Brazils chief espionage and anti-communist, anti-subversion agency. The nations military revolution of 1964 and subsequent evolution to dictatorship are the background for Gahertys ups and downs in Brazils Northeast, the Northeast Interior, Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Braslia, the Amazon, and a final harrowing time in Recife. The thread of the narrative is the series of letters requested of Gaherty by James Hansen of the New York Times (international section) and his later involvement with Stanley Iverson of the INR (Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the United States Department of State)-WHA (Western Hemisphere Affairs) reporting on Gahertys own research activities in Brazil and his discoveries of political and social sentiment in northeastern Brazil. The young American researcher reports as well on meetings with major Brazilian cultural figures, encounters with Brazilian Afro-Brazilian phenomena like Xango, Candomble, and Capoeira, impressive times during New Years Eve and the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, and cultural-travel highlights throughout Brazil. The fly in the ointment was the DOPS.

Travel and Teaching in Portugal and Spain A Photographic Journey

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 149073211X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Teaching in Portugal and Spain A Photographic Journey written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel and Teaching in Portugal and Spain-A Photographic Journey is another in the series Stories I Told My Students. It follows the pattern of books listed above on Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, and Colombia. The book tells the tale of travel in Portugal and travel and summer teaching in the Arizona State University summer program in Spain in 1987. The format of the book combines notes from the travel diary, vignettes on the history of the places visited, and in particular notes, on major literary figures like Luís de Camões or Miguel de Cervantes. Major universities like the University of Coimbra in Portugal and the University of Salamanca in Spain are highlighted. Emphasis is also given to places and figures of the Catholic tradition, like the Cistercian Monastery of Alcobaça in Portugal and the stories of Santa Teresa de Jesús, San Juan de la Cruz, and Ignacio de Loyola in Spain. All are represented in the 256 photos in the book. Cities and places in Portugal are Lisbon, Belém, Sintra, Nazaré, Batalha, Fátima, Leiria, Coimbra, O Porto, Viana do Castelo, and Guimarães. In Spain one sees Málaga, Córdoba, Mijas, Sevilla, Mérida, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra, León, Ávila, Madrid, Segovia, Burgos, El Escorial, and Valle de los Caídos. A side trip to the sanctuaries of Spain and France emphasizes Zaragoza, Barbastro of Opus Dei fame, Lourdes in France, and Loyola in the Basque Country. The book is written in a colloquial style, the author "conversing" with the reader, perhaps over a "Vinho Verde" from Portugal or a "Clarete" from La Rioja in Spain. One discovers adventures in travel time in Portugal, in Málaga, and Madrid for classes and social life, and travel in other parts of Spain, all accompanied by a nice overview of history and culture.

Relembrando-A Velha Literatura de Cordel e a Voz dos Poetas

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490746064
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Relembrando-A Velha Literatura de Cordel e a Voz dos Poetas written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Relembrando-A Velha Literatura de Cordel e a Voz dos Poetas" really contains three important studies on the "cordel": 1) the revision and translation of Curran's PhD dissertation from 1968; 2) the augmentation of one of the chapters of the dissertation, treating Brazil's best known and pioneering poet Leandro Gomes de Barros; 3) the publication of a now historic series of interviews with forty "cordel" poets and publishers in the late 1970s. Curran dedicates much time and energy to this endeavor because he believes the researches were little known in their original form, and more importantly, with the passage of time and the evolution of the "cordel" and Brazil in general, they now remain as historic documents in Brazil's national cultural history.

Travel, Research and Teaching in Guatemala and Mexico

Author : Mark Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466992557
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Travel, Research and Teaching in Guatemala and Mexico written by Mark Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is entitled Travel, Research, and Teaching in Guatemala and Mexico: In Search of the Pre-Columbian Heritage (volume II, Mexico). This book in its totality of two volumes has various facets: it is comprised of anecdotes and thoughts on travel, research, and teaching in Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico from 1962 to 2000; it is a reflection on important topics and concepts of pre-Columbian culture, and finally, it is a summary of classroom guidelines and Professor Curran's notes on a major work on the civilizations of pre-Columbian Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico and important documentary films on the same. Volume II treats Mexico. An introduction and overview of the sites in Mexico is seen in text and photos from the Museo de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City, the best of its kind. Again, volume II treats modern urban cities and rural towns near the pre-Columbian sites: Mexico City, Oaxaca, San Cristóbal de las Casas, and Mérida in the Yucatán. The well-known pre-Columbian sites in volume II are Teotihuacán, Monte Albán, Mitla, Palenque, Uxmal, Chichén-Itzá, and Tulum. The book is richly illustrated with black-and-white travel photos by Curran.

Coming of Age with the Jesuits

Author : MARK J. CURRAN
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466922354
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age with the Jesuits written by MARK J. CURRAN and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coming of Age with the Jesuits" chronicles a young man's formative years from 1959 to 1968 studying on the undergraduate level at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri, and for the Ph.D. at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. Between junior and senior year Curran had his first educational experience in Latin America studying at the National University of Mexico and traveling to Guatemala. This would lead to an increase in his love of languages and area studies and a future teaching career committed to the same at Arizona State University. The book is not an academic treatise on the Jesuits or their method of study, the "Ratio Studiorum," but rather a chronicle of the experiences in their schools by a young man introduced to Jesuit ways and discipline followed by serious study along with college fun and travel. Students from the 1960s will surely recall, relate to and enjoy similar moments in their own days with the Jesuits. The book chronicles as well the on-going process of growing up of a small town farm boy experiencing the big city, college, foreign travel and the next step of serious study with more precise career goals on the graduate level.

The Farm

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Authors Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1304429881
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Farm written by Mark J. Curran and published by Authors Book Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating literary journey with Mark Curran, retired professor from Arizona State University. From his tenure teaching Spanish and Portuguese to his prolific retirement, Curran's narrative spans decades of exploration. Through autobiographical reflections and scholarly pursuits, Curran delves into Brazil's vibrant culture, offering unique insights into its "Literatura de Cordel." But it's in recent years that Curran's storytelling takes an exciting turn, as he ventures into fictionalized accounts of his travels and experiences. "The Farm" is just the first step in the long journey. Join Curran as he invites readers to traverse continents, weaving between reality and imagination. With each page, discover new landscapes, cultures, and insights, inviting you to explore, reflect, and dream.

Letters from Brazil Iii

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490798978
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Brazil Iii written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Letters from Brazil III" is a continuation of Professor Mike Gaherty's adventures in Brazil. It chronicles in fiction Mike's initiation into the Portuguese-Brazilian academic world in the milieu of a major international "congress." The academic affair is followed by Mike's friendship and involvement with singer-composer Chico Buarque de Hollanda, the reporting for the New York Times of his songs jousting with Brazil's "prior censorship" board, and Mike's participation in one of Chico's LP's and successive concerts in Sao Paulo and Rio. The latter experience becomes dicey and dangerous with interference, surprising cooperation and then bad times with the military regime's enforcement agency - the "Department of Public Security." Mike, still a bachelor, is entertained and then becomes enmeshed in fun times turned complicated with beautiful "carioca" women.

Letters from Brazil Ii

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490793607
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Brazil Ii written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from Brazil II is a continuation of Letters from Brazil, 2017. Mike Gaherty, now an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, is back in Brazil to continue research and begin the battle for publication in a “publish or perish” academic world. He now has a Brazilian visa as journalist-researcher in his role of writing occasional “Letters” to the New York Times’s international section and is working in liaison with the Department of Research–Western Hemisphere Analysis of the US State Department (INR–WHA). “Letters” will chronicle what he sees and experiences in Brazil – politics, economics, and especially, daily life under the evolving military regime. The Brazilian intelligence agencies, the DOPS and the SNI, are aware of his role and keep constant surveillance on his activities. Life gets complicated as Mike juggles romantic interests both back at home and in Rio de Janeiro. And research evolves to treat the relationship between the folk-popular stories in verse (“literatura de cordel”) and MPB (Brazilian Popular Music), especially regarding the composer, singer, and musician Chico Buarque de Hollanda and his efforts to write and perform in Brazil while battling with the general’s censorship laws under AI-5. There are many surprises for Mike—some pleasurable, a few dangerous. Life for a researching professor turns out to be not as pedestrian as might be expected.

Around Brazil on the "International Adventurer"

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1698702027
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Around Brazil on the "International Adventurer" written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around Brazil on the “International Adventurer” – a Fictional Panegyric is the story of Professor Mike Gaherty in a new “gig” as Cultural Speaker for Adventure Travel’s small ship expedition around Brazil, a thirty-plus day trip from Manaus in the Amazon Basin to Rio Grande in the South with major stops in Belém do Pará, Recife, Salvador, Ilhéus, Rio de Janeiro and Parati. Adventurers will experience nature on the entire trip, birds, animals and plant life, but will be exposed to the history and culture of a good part of Brazil. The date is 1972 and the political undercurrent of Brazil’s Military Regime and its battle against Leftist Subversion affects the expedition. This however is the old, fun, colorful and entertaining Brazil of years past. Mike and his new colleagues of staff and crew of “Adventurer” mesh well, and there is time for an amorous relationship with Amy, the Assistant Adventure Leader on the ship. Surprises are in tow.

Perip Cias de Um Pesquisador Gringo No Brasil Nos Anos 1960

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466965878
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Perip Cias de Um Pesquisador Gringo No Brasil Nos Anos 1960 written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peripecias de um Pesquisador 'Gringo' no Brasil nos Anos 1960, ou, A Cata do Cordel" e um relato divertido e informativo da primeira estada de pesquisa do Curran no Brasil. Neste livro o autor conta duas estorias: a pesquisa sobre o cordel e talvez mais importante, as viagens e a peripecias daquele primeiro ano no Brasil.Os dois relatos sao inseparaveis e se complementam. Os capitulos incluem: Recife e o Nordeste, Viagens ao Interior do Nordeste, Pesquisa na Capital Colonial do Brasil - Salvador da Bahia, Pesquisa e Turismo no Rio de Janeiro, Viagens ao Interior desde o Rio de Janeiro includindo Ouro Preto, Congonhas do Campo e uma viagem memoravel em um "gaiola," ou seja, vapor de roda, no Rio Sao Francisco em Minas Gerais e Bahia, e finalmente, pesquisa na Bacia Amazonica, incluindo Belem do Para e Manaus. O relato nao esta em linguagem academica mas em um estilo coloquial de conversa. Curran escreve como se estivesse fazendo um bate-papo com o leitor relatando estorias de suas viagens, e talvez, com o autor e leitor gozando uma caipirinha ou um bom choppe enquanto o autor conta suas estorias.

Pre - Columbian Mexico Plans, Pitfalls, and Perils

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1698703457
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Pre - Columbian Mexico Plans, Pitfalls, and Perils written by Mark J. Curran and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pre - Columbian Mexico - Plans, Pitfalls, and Perils” is historical fiction and continues the adventures and escapades of Professor Mike Gaherty, this time along with colleague - girlfriend Amy Carrier, on a travel, research trip to Mexico. The goal is to scope out and research Mexico for a possible Adventure Travel expedition, its first all on land, and in partnership with New York Times Travel. Surprises come, unexpected opposition to foreign tourism and travel in Mexico. Mike and Amy are haunted by vestiges of Pre - Columbian gods, peoples and places.