• Livros
    • The Writing and Publishing Journey
    • Rural Odyssey IV Parallels - Abilene - Cowboys - "Cordel"
    • Two by Mark J Curran
    • Adventure Travel in Guatemala - The Maya Heritage
    • The Master of the ‘Literatura de Cordel’ - Leandro Gomes de Barros
    • Letters from Brazil IV
    • The Collection
    • A Rural Odyssey - Living Can Be Dangerous
    • A Rural Odyssey II - Abilene
    • Rural Odyssey III - Dreams Fulfilled and Back to Abilene
    • Around Brazil on the "International Adventurer"
    • Pre-Columbian Mexico: Plans, Pitfalls, and Perils
    • Portugal and Spain on the International Adventurer
    • Letters from Brazil: A Cultural-Historical Narrative Made Fiction
    • Letters from Brazil II
    • Letters from Brazil III
    • A Professor takes to the Sea
    • A Professor Takes to the Sea, Volume II
    • Aconteceu no Brasil
    • Diario de um Pesquisador Norte-Americano no Brasil III
    • Relembrando – A Velha Literatura de Cordel e a Voz dos Poetas
    • Travel and Teaching in Portugal and Spain – A Photographic Journey
    • Fifty Years of Research on Brazil
    • A Portrait of Brazil in the Twentieth Century
    • Travel, Research and Teaching in Guatemala and Mexico. Volume I, Guatemala
    • Travel, Research and Teaching in Guatemala and Mexico. Volume II, Mexico
    • A Trip to Colombia
    • Coming of Age with the Jesuits
    • The Farm
    • Retrato do Brasil em Cordel
    • Peripécias de um Pesquisador ‘Gringo’ no Brasil nos Anos 1960 Ou À Cata do Cordel
    • Jorge Amado e a Literatura de Cordel
    • A Literatura de Cordel
    • La Literatura De Cordel Brasileña: Antología Bilingüe en Espanol y Portugues
    • A Presença De Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante na Moderna Literatura de Cordel
    • Cuíca De Santo Amaro Poeta-Repórter Da Bahia
    • Cuíca De Santo Amaro Controvérsia no Cordel
    • História Do Brasil Em Cordel
    • A Poesia Folclórica - Popular Do Brasil – A Literatura De Cordel
  • Cordel
    • O que e' o cordel?
    • O Papel Publico do Cordel
    • Cordel para todos?
    • Antes e Agora
  • Sobre
  • Contato
  • Ponto de Partida

Curran's Cordel Connection

A Portrait of Brazil in the Twentieth Century

portrait-of-brazilThe Universe of the "Literatura de Cordel" is Curran's most recent project. It is the English version of a major work published in Brazil in Portuguese in 2011 by Ateliê Editorial, "Retrato do Brasil em Cordel." Curran returns to "Portrait" for several reasons: primary is his strong feeling that the amazingly broad view of Brazil in the twentieth century seen in the thousands of booklets in verse from the "cordel" represents a major aspect of Brazilian culture in that century. Second, because there are many important bodies of folk-popular verse in the Western Tradition, all "distant relatives" of the Greek and Roman Epic Traditions, and because Brazil's folkpopular poetry is one among them, and because a very large reading public interested in such things does not know Portuguese, this volume in English strives to make the tradition available to such readers.

Finally, the book represents the cumulative efforts of research and writing of Professor Curran in a career of forty-three years of scholarly research and teaching. It reveals a unique portrait of Brazil and its people, informative, instructive and mainly, entertaining.

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