The Portuguese nun: formation of a national myth

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."

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Beteilige Person: Klobucka, Anna 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Lewisburg [u.a.] Bucknell Univ. Press [u.a.] 2000
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Zusammenfassung: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]
Umfang:151 S.
ISBN:0838754651