Maria Manuel Lisboa is Professor of Portuguese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. She specializes in Portuguese and Brazilian literature from the nineteenth century to the present and has also published on the visual artist Paula Rego and the theme of apocalypse in English literature and film. Her work has won two prizes: the Prémio do Grémio Literário (Portugal) and the Prémio Itamaraty (Brazil).

• CONTENTS: Religious Difference in Portuguese Literature: God’s Infinite Variety – Pagans One and All: Teresa de Mello Breyner and Domingos Monteiro – Moors on the Shore (Há Mouros na Costa): Alexandre Herculano and Helia Correia – The Jew in You: Camilo Castelo Branco and Miguel Torga – Standing in My Relative’s Shoes: Christianity on a Crucible: Jose Saramago – In the End Was No Word: Old Tragedies for Modern Times.

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Maria Manuel Lisboa is Professor of Portuguese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. She specializes in Portuguese and Brazilian literature from the nineteenth century to the present and has also published on the visual artist Paula Rego and the theme of apocalypse in English literature and film. Her work has won two prizes: the Prémio do Grémio Literário (Portugal) and the Prémio Itamaraty (Brazil).

• CONTENTS: Religious Difference in Portuguese Literature: God’s Infinite Variety – Pagans One and All: Teresa de Mello Breyner and Domingos Monteiro – Moors on the Shore (Há Mouros na Costa): Alexandre Herculano and Helia Correia – The Jew in You: Camilo Castelo Branco and Miguel Torga – Standing in My Relative’s Shoes: Christianity on a Crucible: Jose Saramago – In the End Was No Word: Old Tragedies for Modern Times.

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Maria Manuel Lisboa is Professor of Portuguese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. She specializes in Portuguese and Brazilian literature from the nineteenth century to the present and has also published on the visual artist Paula Rego and the theme of apocalypse in English literature and film. Her work has won two prizes: the Prémio do Grémio Literário (Portugal) and the Prémio Itamaraty (Brazil).

• CONTENTS: Religious Difference in Portuguese Literature: God’s Infinite Variety – Pagans One and All: Teresa de Mello Breyner and Domingos Monteiro – Moors on the Shore (Há Mouros na Costa): Alexandre Herculano and Helia Correia – The Jew in You: Camilo Castelo Branco and Miguel Torga – Standing in My Relative’s Shoes: Christianity on a Crucible: Jose Saramago – In the End Was No Word: Old Tragedies for Modern Times.

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