Bøker av George Monteiro

Jorge de Sena was an undisputed giant of twentieth-century Portuguese letters. In the essays gathered in this collection, George Monteiro deftly weaves together his readings of Sena's poetry and prose, both literary and critical, with evidence drawn from Sena's biographical archive, focusing in particular on his Brazilian and US years.

There's No Word for SAUDADE contains twenty-one essays aimed at a readership interested in cultural and historical materials, including those relate to Portuguese America.

Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup identifies elements of an emerging Portuguese American culture in the United States.

Explores allusions, sources, echoes and affinities in Henry James' vast body of work as critical ways to discover and interpret his artistic purposes and literary intentions. It ranges over the vast corpus of his fiction, including stories, novellas and novels published in the leading journals of the day on both sides of the Atlantic.

"A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written."

Fernando Pessoa (1888--1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century.

Of the great epic poets in the Western tradition, Luis Vaz de Camoes (c. In this major work of comparative scholarship, George Monteiro thus breaks new ground, focusing on English-language writers whose vision and expression have been sharpened by their varied responses to Camoes.