Stories on a String / Candace Slater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slater, Candace, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

I. Background for the Literatura de Cordel

II. The Poet and His Public: The Cordel in a National Context

III. Theoretical Approaches to the Literatura de Cordel

IV. The King, the Dove, and the Sparrowhawk by José de Souza Campos

V. The Monstrous Kidnapping of Serginho by Apolônio Alves dos Santos

VI. Tereza Batista by Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante

VII. "I Sing for Everyone": The Folheto in the Eyes of the Poet

VIII. "The Poet Sings to Please Us": The Folheto in the Eyes of the Public

IX. Stories on a String: The Brazilian Cordel

Appendix A: Notes on Artists, Writers, and Other Educated Persons Interviewed

Appendix B: Notes on Popular Poets Interviewed

Appendix C: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Folheto Buyers

Appendix D: Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520318021

0520318021

OCLC:

1202625008