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Summary: "This study describes and analyzes cultural and literary mythology surrounding the figure of the seventeenth-century nun Mariana Alcoforado as the presumed author of the celebrated collection of love letters that originally appeared in 1669 in French under the title of Lettres portugaises (known in their many English editions as Portuguese Letters or Letters of a Portuguese Nun). Ostensibly written by a nun cloistered in a provincial Portuguese convent to her departed lover, an officer in the French army, they are nowadays generally reputed to have been a literary fake authored by a seventeenth-century French writer." "The Portuguese Nun describes the foundation and development of the myth of Soror Mariana and illuminates its continuing investment in the fabrication, by the country's cultural elite, of a shared national imagination. It examines the process of national reappropriation of the text from the Romantic period until its latest, postmodern manifestations exemplified most remarkably by the feminist manifesto Novas Cartas Portuguesas [New Portuguese Letters]. From its first "retranslations" into Portuguese in the early nineteenth century, this slim collection of five love letters has retained its status of a somewhat improbable textual support for one of Portugal's most persistently cultivated cultural fictions."--BOOK JACKET

Language: eng

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Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, London, Associated University Presses, 2000

Extent: 151 p.

Isbn: 9780838754658

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Label: The Portuguese nun : formation of a national myth

Title: The Portuguese nun

Title remainder: formation of a national myth

Statement of responsibility: Anna Klobucka

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Language: eng

Summary: "This study describes and analyzes cultural and literary mythology surrounding the figure of the seventeenth-century nun Mariana Alcoforado as the presumed author of the celebrated collection of love letters that originally appeared in 1669 in French under the title of Lettres portugaises (known in their many English editions as Portuguese Letters or Letters of a Portuguese Nun). Ostensibly written by a nun cloistered in a provincial Portuguese convent to her departed lover, an officer in the French army, they are nowadays generally reputed to have been a literary fake authored by a seventeenth-century French writer." "The Portuguese Nun describes the foundation and development of the myth of Soror Mariana and illuminates its continuing investment in the fabrication, by the country's cultural elite, of a shared national imagination. It examines the process of national reappropriation of the text from the Romantic period until its latest, postmodern manifestations exemplified most remarkably by the feminist manifesto Novas Cartas Portuguesas [New Portuguese Letters]. From its first "retranslations" into Portuguese in the early nineteenth century, this slim collection of five love letters has retained its status of a somewhat improbable textual support for one of Portugal's most persistently cultivated cultural fictions."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source: DLC

http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate: 1961-

http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Klobucka, Anna

Illustrations: illustrations

Index: index present

LC call number: PQ1799.G795

LC item number: L4339 2000

Literary form: non fiction

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Literature and society
Guilleragues, Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne
Guilleragues, Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne
Guilleragues, Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne
Guilleragues, Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne
Guilleragues, Gabriel Joseph de Lavergne

Label: The Portuguese nun : formation of a national myth, Anna Klobucka

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The Portuguese nun : formation of a national myth

Publication

Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, London, Associated University Presses, 2000

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-146) and index

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Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

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Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Control code: ocm44026404

Dimensions: 24 cm.

Extent: 151 p.

Isbn: 9780838754658

Lccn: 00034224

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

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Other control number: 9780838754658

Other physical details: ill., port.

Label: The Portuguese nun : formation of a national myth, Anna Klobucka

Publication

Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, London, Associated University Presses, 2000

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-146) and index

Carrier category: volume

Carrier category code

Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

Content type code

Content type MARC source: rdacontent

Control code: ocm44026404

Dimensions: 24 cm.

Extent: 151 p.

Isbn: 9780838754658

Lccn: 00034224

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

Media type code

Other control number: 9780838754658

Other physical details: ill., port.

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