Svět Literatury (Jun 2017)

A Literatura do passado e os desafios da modernidade // The literature of the past and the challenges of modernity

  • Zulmira C. Santos

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. Special Issue - "O mundo da literatura"
pp. 30 – 38

Abstract

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Based on a belief in the “historical” importance of memory and its role in the formation of collective consciousness, the article discusses the importance of teaching the literature of the past in contemporary times, with a particular focus on the literatures of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

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