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AS "CARTAS PORTUGUESAS" E A TRADIÇÃO DO “AMOR INFELIZ” NA LITERATURA PORTUGUESA DE VOZ FEMININA

2010; Volume: 11; Issue: 21 Linguagem: Inglês

1981-4755

Priscila Finger do Prado,

Literature, Culture, and Aesthetics

Inserted in the perspective of literary studies, this paper proposes an analysis of the “Cartas Portuguesas” (Portuguese Letters), a work attributed to Mariana Alcoforado, assuming that this work is constituted within the Lusitanian literature as an important formative element of the imaginary loving Portuguese female voice. Through the study, it is possible to identify the fact that the letters are prefaced, stylistically or thematically, by the songs of love and of friend, and succeeded by works such as “Livro de Soror Saudade” (Book of Longing Soror), of Florbela Espanca, and “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” (New Portuguese Letters) by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Velho da Costa and Maria Teresa Horta.